| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Causa transeundi fuit quod ab Suebis complures annos exagitati bello
premebantur et agri cultura prohibebantur.
Sueborum gens est longe maxima et bellicosissima Germanorum omnium.
Hi centum pagos habere dicuntur, ex quibus quotannis singula milia
armatorum bellandi causa ex finibus educunt. Reliqui, qui domi manserunt,
se atque illos alunt; hi rursus in vicem anno post in armis sunt, illi
domi remanent. Sic neque agri cultura nec ratio atque usus belli
intermittitur. Sed privati ac separati agri apud eos nihil est, neque
longius anno remanere uno in loco colendi causa licet. Neque multum
frumento, sed maximam partem lacte atque pecore vivunt multum sunt in
venationibus; quae res et cibi genere et cotidiana exercitatione et
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: and the king's."
"But how?" said she.
"Oh!" replied he; "I have bought you, you and your tricks. You won't
have to look at these crowns twice without finding me a way to have my
wife. In bringing this conjunction about you commit no sin. It is a
work of piety to bring together two people whose hands only been put
one in to the other, and that by the priest."
"By my faith, come," said she; "after supper the lights will be put
out, and you can enjoy Madame if you remain silent. Luckily, on these
joyful occasions she cries more than she speaks, and asks questions
with her hands alone, for she is very modest, and does not like loose
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: out] "entirely for the benefit of Catholics, and even so not
wisely; but after a long, plain talk, he admitted his error fully
and revised the list. The sad state of the boys' home is in part
the result of his lack of control; in part, of his own slovenly
ways and false ideas of hygiene. Brother officials used to call it
'Damien's Chinatown.' 'Well,' they would say, 'your Chinatown
keeps growing.' And he would laugh with perfect good-nature, and
adhere to his errors with perfect obstinacy. So much I have
gathered of truth about this plain, noble human brother and father
of ours; his imperfections are the traits of his face, by which we
know him for our fellow; his martyrdom and his example nothing can
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