| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: they were being followed.
Arrived in her room, they discussed their plans for
the day of days.
"I'll come round soon in the morning, and we'll
spend the whole day at the Beach," he suggested.
She lifted her hands in protest.
"No--no!"
"No?"
"Not on our wedding-day, Jim!"
"Why?"
"It's not good form. The groom should not see the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: assert that the Americans will not, at some future time, restrict
the circle of political rights in their country, or confiscate
those rights to the advantage of a single individual; but I
cannot imagine that they will ever bestow the exclusive exercise
of them upon a privileged class of citizens, or, in other words,
that they will ever found an aristocracy.
An aristocratic body is composed of a certain number of
citizens who, without being very far removed from the mass of the
people, are, nevertheless, permanently stationed above it: a body
which it is easy to touch and difficult to strike; with which the
people are in daily contact, but with which they can never
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: overthrow, and covered him with mud.
A fallen minister, if he is to rise again to power, must show that he
is to be feared; this man, intoxicated by Royal glibness, had fancied
that his position would be permanent; he acknowledged his
delinquencies; besides confessing them, he did Marcas a small money
service, for Marcas had got into debt. He subsidized the newspaper on
which Marcas worked, and made him the manager of it.
Though he despised the man, Marcas, who, practically, was being
subsidized too, consented to take the part of the fallen minister.
Without unmasking at once all the batteries of his superior intellect,
Marcas came a little further than before; he showed half his
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