| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: AVOIR UNE VOYAGE MAGNIFICAL
Is our wish sincere,
That you'll have from here
ALLANT SUR LA GRANDE PACIFICAL.'
But our chief visitor was one Mapiao, a great Tahuku - which seems
to mean priest, wizard, tattooer, practiser of any art, or, in a
word, esoteric person - and a man famed for his eloquence on public
occasions and witty talk in private. His first appearance was
typical of the man. He came down clamorous to the eastern landing,
where the surf was running very high; scorned all our signals to go
round the bay; carried his point, was brought aboard at some hazard
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The
motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and
Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. He looked at the cotton wool,
decided that it was not good to eat, ran all round the table, sat
up and put his fur in order, scratched himself, and jumped on the
small boy's shoulder.
"Don't be frightened, Teddy," said his father. "That's his
way of making friends."
"Ouch! He's tickling under my chin," said Teddy.
Rikki-tikki looked down between the boy's collar and neck,
snuffed at his ear, and climbed down to the floor, where he sat
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: scientific men--than whom the world has never seen wiser--have
proved to us, for a whole generation past, that dirt is the
fertile cause of disease and drunkenness, misery, and
recklessness."
"And, therefore," replies the shade, ere he disappears, "of
discontent and revolution: followed by a tyranny endured, as in
Rome and many another place, by men once free; because tyranny
will at least do for them what they are too lazy, and cowardly,
and greedy, to do for themselves. Farewell, and prosper; as you
seem likely to prosper, on the whole. But if you wish me to
consider you a civilised nation: let me hear that you have
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