| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: delight she said to herself: "I have saved him once, and I will save
him again." She heard him cry out when he felt her lips upon his
forehead, "Many a poor wretch does not know what love is!"
"Are you ill?" said her husband, coming into her room to take her to
breakfast.
"I am dreadfully worried about a matter that is happening at my
sister's," she replied, without actually telling a lie.
"Your sister has fallen into bad hands," replied Felix. "It is a shame
for any family to have a du Tillet in it,--a man without honor of any
kind. If disaster happened to her she would get no pity from him."
"What woman wants pity?" said the countess, with a convulsive motion.
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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: Persians are a nation eminently social, and their assemblies
afforded me daily opportunities of remarking characters and
manners, and of tracing human nature through all its variations.
"From Persia I passed into Arabia, where I saw a nation pastoral
and warlike, who lived without any settled habitation, whose wealth
is their flocks and herds, and who have carried on through ages an
hereditary war with mankind, though they neither covet nor envy
their possessions."
CHAPTER X - IMLAC'S HISTORY (CONTINUED) - A DISSERTATION UPON
POETRY.
"WHEREVER I went I found that poetry was considered as the highest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: "'We could afford to do that, because we have cleaned up over $5,000
from these suckers that wanted to marry you. But,' says I, 'Andy
Tucker is to be consulted.
"'He is a good man, but keen in business. He is my equal partner
financially. I will talk to Andy,' says I, 'and see what can be done.'
"I goes back to our hotel and lays the case before Andy.
"'I was expecting something like this all the time,' says Andy. 'You
can't trust a woman to stick by you in any scheme that involves her
emotions and preferences.'
"'It's a sad thing, Andy,' says I, 'to think that we've been the cause
of the breaking of a woman's heart.'
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