| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: reached over anybody, and anybody--no matter who--would have let
him; but he was so extraordinarily kind that he quite pathetically
waited, never waggling things at her out of his turn nor saying
"Here!" with horrid sharpness. He waited for pottering old ladies,
for gaping slaveys, for the perpetual Buttonses from Thrupp's; and
the thing in all this that she would have liked most unspeakably to
put to the test was the possibility of her having for him a
personal identity that might in a particular way appeal. There
were moments when he actually struck her as on her side, as
arranging to help, to support, to spare her.
But such was the singular spirit of our young friend that she could
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: streets; and finally, money, and ever more money, in the hands of
uneducated people, who have not the desire, and too often not the
means, of spending it in any save the lowest pleasures. These, it
seems to me, are the true causes of drunkenness, increasing or
not. And if we wish to become a more temperate nation, we must
lessen them, if we cannot eradicate them.
First, overwork. We all live too fast, and work too hard. "All
things are full of labour, man cannot utter it." In the heavy
struggle for existence which goes on all around us, each man is
tasked more and more--if he be really worth buying and using--to
the utmost of his powers all day long. The weak have to compete
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: had held the fair form of Bertrade de Montfort in his
arms, and in all that time he had heard no word from
her.
He would have followed her to France but for the
fact that, after he had parted from her and the intoxi-
cation of her immediate presence had left his brain
clear to think rationally, he had realized the futility of
his hopes, and he had seen that the pressing of his suit
could mean only suffering and mortification for the
woman he loved.
His better judgment told him that she, on her part,
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