| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: them, "The tribe Antiochis obtained the victory: Aristides defrayed
the charges: Archestratus's play was acted." But this argument,
though in appearance the strongest, is of the least moment of any.
For Epaminondas, who all the world knows was educated, and lived his
whole life, in much poverty, and also Plato, the philosopher,
exhibited magnificent shows, the one an entertainment of flute-players
the other of dithyrambic singers; Dion, the Syracusan, supplying the
expenses of the latter, and Pelopidas those of Epaminondas. For good
men do not allow themselves in any inveterate and irreconcilable
hostility to receiving presents from their friends, but while looking
upon those that are accepted to be hoarded up and with avaricious
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: also, only his'n lasted much longer.
But he tells me he has jest struck an idea fur a
big scheme. No little schemes go fur him any
more, he says. He wants money. Real money.
"How you going to get it?" I asts him.
"Come along and I'll tell you," he says. "We'll
take a walk, and I'll show you how I got my idea."
We left the restaurant and went along the brag
street of that town, which it is awful proud of,
past where the stores stops and the houses begins.
We come to a fine-looking house on a corner--a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: designation of 'Canadian Felt Hat Manufacturers.' There was no more
hope of evening fellowship, and I could only stroll on by the river-
side, under the trees. The water was dappled with slanting sunshine,
and dusted all over with a little mist of flying insects. There were
some amorous ducks, also, whose lovemaking reminded me of what I had
seen a little farther down. But the road grew sad, and I grew weary;
and as I was perpetually haunted with the terror of a return of the
tie that had been playing such ruin in my head a week ago, I turned
and went back to the inn, and supper, and my bed.
The next morning, at breakfast, I communicated to the smart waitress
my intention of continuing down the coast and through Whitehaven to
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