| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: opened, and, without destroying its air of antiquity, I had such
new articles of furniture placed in it as became the modern
times. Yet, as the opinion that the room was haunted very
strongly prevailed among the domestics, and was also known in the
neighbourhood and to many of my friends, I feared some prejudice
might be entertained by the first occupant of the Tapestried
Chamber, which might tend to revive the evil report which it had
laboured under, and so disappoint my purpose of rendering it a
useful part or the house. I must confess, my dear Browne, that
your arrival yesterday, agreeable to me for a thousand reasons
besides, seemed the most favourable opportunity of removing the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Fifth Objection: My wife has had a mean life (1), loves me (2),
could not bear to lose me (3). (1) I admit: I am sorry. (2) But
what does she love me for? and (3) she must lose me soon or late.
And after all, because we run this risk, it does not follow we
should fail. Sixth Objection: My wife wouldn't like it. No, she
wouldn't. Who would? But the Curtins don't like it. And all
those who are to suffer if this goes on, won't like it. And if
there is a great wrong, somebody must suffer. Seventh Objection:
I won't like it. No, I will not; I have thought it through, and I
will not. But what of that? And both she and I may like it more
than we suppose. We shall lose friends, all comforts, all society:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: lover of that state, without which he can neither hope for safety nor
prosperity. On the other hand, his tyrrany, the exigencies of despotic
rule, compel him to incriminate his fatherland.[5] To train his
citizens to soldiery, to render them brave warriors, and well armed,
confers no pleasure on him; rather he will take delight to make his
foreigners more formidable than those to whom the state belongs, and
these foreigners he will depend on as his body-guard.
[5] Or, "depreciate the land which gave him birth." Holden cf.
"Cyrop." VII. ii. 22. See Sturz, s.v.
Nay more, not even in the years of plenty,[6] when abundance of all
blessings reigns, not even then may the tyrant's heart rejoice amid
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