| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
KING.
Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young!
And fitter is my study and my books
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Yet call the ambassadors; and, as you please,
So let them have their answers every one:
I shall be well content with any choice
Tends to God's glory and my country's weal.
[Enter Winchester in Cardinal's habit, a Legate
and two Ambassadors.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: disbelieved them; they fitted so ill with the man's looks. But
indeed, he was neither so good as I supposed him, nor quite so
bad as Ransome did; for, in fact, he was two men, and left the
better one behind as soon as he set foot on board his vessel.
The next thing, I heard my uncle calling me, and found the pair
in the road together. It was the captain who addressed me, and
that with an air (very flattering to a young lad) of grave
equality.
"Sir," said he, "Mr. Balfour tells me great things of you; and
for my own part, I like your looks. I wish I was for longer
here, that we might make the better friends; but we'll make the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: of boredom. He had been bored by London. Social occasions
irritated him, several times he had come near to gross incivilities,
art annoyed him, sport was an effort, wholesome perhaps, but
unattractive, music he loved, but it excited him. The defendant
broke the sunset calm by uttering amazing and improper phrases.
"I can't smug about in a state of falsified righteousness like these
Crampton chaps.
"I shall roll in women. I shall rollick in women. If, that is, I
stay in London with nothing more to do than I have had this year
past.
"I've been sliding fast to it. . . .
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