| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: his company, Marks was as good as his word, and was soon seen
galloping away.
"Was ever such a sneaking varmint?" said one of the men; "to
come on his business, and he clear out and leave us this yer way!"
"Well, we must pick up that feller," said another. "Cuss me if
I much care whether he is dead or alive."
The men, led by the groans of Tom, scrambled and crackled
through stumps, logs and bushes, to where that hero lay groaning
and swearing with alternate vehemence.
"Ye keep it agoing pretty loud, Tom," said one. "Ye much hurt?"
"Don't know. Get me up, can't ye? Blast that infernal Quaker!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: state." "Now," said the Prince, "you have given me something to
desire. I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the
sight of them is necessary to happiness."
CHAPTER IV - THE PRINCE CONTINUES TO GRIEVE AND MUSE
AT this time the sound of music proclaimed the hour of repast, and
the conversation was concluded. The old man went away sufficiently
discontented to find that his reasonings had produced the only
conclusion which they were intended to prevent. But in the decline
of life, shame and grief are of short duration: whether it be that
we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves
in age less regarded, we less regard others; or that we look with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: delicacies, how they would all have suffered, how they would all
have been sacrificed! And for what? Children are the last word of
human imperfection. Health flees before their face. They cry, my
dear; they put vexatious questions; they demand to be fed, to be
washed, to be educated, to have their noses blown; and then, when
the time comes, they break our hearts, as I break this piece of
sugar. A pair of professed egoists, like you and me, should avoid
offspring, like an infidelity.'
'Indeed!' said she; and she laughed. 'Now, that is like you - to
take credit for the thing you could not help.'
'My dear,' returned the Doctor, solemnly, 'we might have adopted.'
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