| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: friend.'"
Crit. None, with any show of justice, Socrates.
Soc. Well, then, my business now is, Critobulus, to point out[13] to
you some others cleverer than myself about those matters which you are
so anxious to be taught by me. I do confess to you, I have made it
long my study to discover who among our fellow-citizens in this city
are the greatest adepts in the various branches of knowledge.[14] I
had been struck with amazement, I remember, to observe on some
occasion that where a set of people are engaged in identical
operations, half of them are in absolute indigence and the other half
roll in wealth. I bethought me, the history of the matter was worth
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: difficult to alter his explanations of that night, and there clung a
certain mystery to the boy's reasons for vanishing as well as to the
manner of it.
It was on that night that Grandemont first perceived a new and
singular expression in Adele's eyes whenever she looked at him. And
through the years following that expression was always there. He could
not read it, for it was born of a thought she would never otherwise
reveal.
Perhaps, if he had known that Adele had stood at the gate on that
unlucky night, where she had followed, lingering, to await the return
of her brother and lover, wondering why they had chosen so tempestuous
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: [1] Lit. "To proceed: when you have bought a horse which you admire
and have brought him home."
[2] i.e. "where he will be brought as frequently as possible under the
master's eye." Cf. "Econ." xii. 20.
Nor is it only to avoid the risk of food being stolen that a secure
horse-box is desirable, but for the further reason that if the horse
takes to scattering his food, the action is at once detected; and any
one who observes that happening may take it as a sign and symptom
either of too much blood,[3] which calls for veterinary aid, or of
over-fatigue, for which rest is the cure, or else that an attack of
indigestion[4] or some other malady is coming on. And just as with
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