| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: search of his beloved princess only to fall into the
hands of a party of Warhoons as he was about to leave, after
assuring himself that Dejah Thoris was not a captive there.
During the period of our incarceration Kantos Kan and I
became well acquainted, and formed a warm personal friendship.
A few days only elapsed, however, before we were dragged forth
from our dungeon for the great games. We were conducted early
one morning to an enormous amphitheater, which instead of having
been built upon the surface of the ground was excavated below
the surface. it had partially filled with debris so that how
large it had originally been was difficult to say. In its
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: "Haggle! do you call it haggling to defend the interests of father and
mother and children?" said Mathias.
"Yes," said Paul, continuing his remarks to Madame Evangelista, "I
deplore the extravagance of my youth, which does not permit me to stop
this discussion, as you deplore your ignorance of business and your
involuntary wastefulness. God is my witness that I am not thinking, at
this moment, of myself. A simple life at Lanstrac does not alarm me;
but how can I ask Mademoiselle Natalie to renounce her tastes, her
habits? Her very existence would be changed."
"Where did Evangelista get his millions?" said the widow.
"Monsieur Evangelista was in business," replied the old notary; "he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: morality in addition to its prudence, by civilising them, raising
them more or less toward its own standard. And thus, in every land,
civilisation and national life has arisen out of the patriarchal
state; and the Eastern scheik, with his wives, free and slave, and
his hundreds of fighting men born in his house, is the type of all
primaeval rulers. He is the best man of his horde--in every sense
of the word best; and whether he have a right to rule them or not,
they consider that he has, and are the better men for his guidance.
Whether this ought to have been the history of primaeval
civilisation, is a question not to be determined here. That it is
the history thereof, is surely patent to anyone who will imagine to
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