| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: obtaining a knowledge of things as they really are, in
distinction from the tissue of shams which constitute the warp
and the woof of an Oriental Palace, should have been able to hold
her own in every situation, and never be crushed by the opposing
forces about her, is a phenomenon in itself only to be explained
by due recognition of the influence of individual qualities in a
ruler even in the semi-absolutism of China.
--Arthur H. Smith in "China in Convulsion."
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THE EMPRESS DOWAGER--AS A RULER
In considering the policy pursued by the Empress-mother after her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
The Gift of the Magi |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: forget that."
The doctor left the house. Muller smiled bitterly as he closed the
door behind him, and murmured to himself: "Indeed, I do not forget
it, and that is why I shall take this matter into my own hands. But
the Kniepp case is not closed yet, by any means."
When he returned to the study he saw Johann sitting quietly in a
corner, shaking his head, as if trying to understand it all. Horn
was bending over a sheet of writing paper which lay before the dead
man. Fellner must have been busy at his desk when the bullet
penetrated his heart. His hand in dying had let fall the pen,
which had drawn a long black mark across the bottom of the sheet.
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