| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: knew what was due Margaret, and also due herself.
"The truth is," said Camille, "this is an awful sort
of life for a woman like Margaret. She and her
folks were never used to anything like it."
"Why didn't you make your beauty husband
hustle and take care of her and you, then?" de-
manded Bill, who admired Camille, and disliked her
because she had no eyes for him.
"My husband has been unfortunate. He has
done the best he could," responded Camille. "Come,
Jack; no use talking about it any longer. Guess
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: knowledge, and so prevents us from solving any single social
problem. We are trying at present to stave off the coming crisis,
the coming revolution as my friends the Fabianists call it, by
means of doles and alms. Well, when the revolution or crisis
arrives, we shall be powerless, because we shall know nothing. And
so, Ernest, let us not be deceived. England will never be
civilised till she has added Utopia to her dominions. There is
more than one of her colonies that she might with advantage
surrender for so fair a land. What we want are unpractical people
who see beyond the moment, and think beyond the day. Those who try
to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Brandeis had imported from the colonies another printer of the name
of Jones, to deprive Cusack of the government printing. German
sailors had come ashore one day, wild with offended patriotism, to
punish the editor with stripes, and the result was delightfully
amusing. The champions asked for the English printer. They were
shown the wrong man, and the blows intended for Cusack had hailed
on the shoulders of his rival Jones. On the 12th, Cusack had
reprinted an article from a San Francisco paper; the Germans had
complained; and de Coetlogon, in a moment of weakness, had fined
the editor twenty pounds. The judgment was afterwards reversed in
Fiji; but even at the time it had not satisfied the Germans. And
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