| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: interest all the citizens alike; but it is not always necessary
to the existence and the prosperity of the nation that these
rights should be uniform, nor, consequently, that they should be
regulated by the central authority.
There are, then, two distinct categories of objects which
are submitted to the direction of the sovereign power; and these
categories occur in all well-constituted communities, whatever
the basis of the political constitution may otherwise be.
Between these two extremes the objects which I have termed mixed
may be considered to lie. As these objects are neither
exclusively national nor entirely provincial, they may be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: my sofa...." She paused, and her smile grew more
motherly. "Afterwards--if there's been any talk at
home, and you want to get away for a while...I have a
lady friend in Boston who's looking for a
companion...you're the very one to suit her, my
dear...."
Charity had reached the door. "I don't want to stay. I
don't want to come back here," she stammered, her hand
on the knob; but with a swift movement, Dr. Merkle
edged her from the threshold.
"Oh, very well. Five dollars, please."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native
rights--any evidence that they have not wholly lost their
original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks
out of her pasture early in the spring and boldly swims the
river, a cold, gray tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide,
swollen by the melted snow. It is the buffalo crossing the
Mississippi. This exploit confers some dignity on the herd in my
eyes--already dignified. The seeds of instinct are preserved
under the thick hides of cattle and horses, like seeds in the
bowels of the earth, an indefinite period.
Any sportiveness in cattle is unexpected. I saw one day a herd of
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