| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: 'Oh, I don't think it's my doing,' said Connie.
'It must be! Can't be anybody else's. And it seems to me you don't get
enough out of it.'
'How?'
'Look at the way you are shut up here. I said to Clifford: If that
child rebels one day you'll have yourself to thank!'
'But Clifford never denies me anything,' said Connie.
'Look here, my dear child'--and Lady Bennerley laid her thin hand on
Connie's arm. 'A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not
having lived it. Believe me!' And she took another sip of brandy, which
maybe was her form of repentance.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: pause. Then the eyes of the two women meet. LADY CHILTERN looks
stern and pale. MRS. CHEVELEY seem rather amused.] Mrs. Cheveley, I
think it is right to tell you quite frankly that, had I known who you
really were, I should not have invited you to my house last night.
MRS. CHEVELEY [With an impertinent smile.] Really?
LADY CHILTERN. I could not have done so.
MRS. CHEVELEY. I see that after all these years you have not changed
a bit, Gertrude.
LADY CHILTERN. I never change.
MRS. CHEVELEY [Elevating her eyebrows.] Then life has taught you
nothing?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: strongest savage has still--the power of obtaining a wife, or wives,
superior in beauty and in household skill, which involves
superiority of intellect; and therefore his children would--some of
them at least--be superior to the average, both from the father's
and the mother's capacities. They again would marry select wives;
and their children again would do the same; till, in a very few
generations, a family would have established itself, considerably
superior to the rest of the tribe in body and mind, and become
assuredly its ruling race.
Again, if one of that race invented a new weapon, a new mode of
tillage, or aught else which gave him power, that would add to the
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