| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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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: South; and this same influence equally extends to their manners.
The slave is a servant who never remonstrates, and who submits to
everything without complaint. He may sometimes assassinate, but
he never withstands, his master. In the South there are no
families so poor as not to have slaves. The citizen of the
Southern States of the Union is invested with a sort of domestic
dictatorship, from his earliest years; the first notion he
acquires in life is that he is born to command, and the first
habit which he contracts is that of being obeyed without
resistance. His education tends, then, to give him the character
of a supercilious and a hasty man; irascible, violent, and ardent
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: "abundance of the bench" is German. But the mother in the home
and the common man say this: "What fills the heart overflows the
mouth." That is speaking with the proper German tongue of the
kind I have tried for, although unfortunately not always
successfully. The literal Latin is a great barrier to speaking
proper German.
So, as the traitor Judas says in Matthew 26: "Ut quid perditio
haec?" and in Mark 14: "Ut quid perditio iste unguenti facta est?"
Subsequently, for these literalist asses I would have to translate
it: "Why has this loss of salve occurred?" But what kind of
German is this? What German says "loss of salve occurred"? And
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