| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: prevent us from becoming man and wife, and I may marry some one
else, and marry often, nothing that she can possibly do can alter
my eternal devotion to you.
JACK. Dear Gwendolen!
GWENDOLEN. The story of your romantic origin, as related to me by
mamma, with unpleasing comments, has naturally stirred the deeper
fibres of my nature. Your Christian name has an irresistible
fascination. The simplicity of your character makes you
exquisitely incomprehensible to me. Your town address at the
Albany I have. What is your address in the country?
JACK. The Manor House, Woolton, Hertfordshire.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: whole field of commerce more surprising than the fluctuations of
the leather market. Its sensitiveness may be described as
morbid.'
'And now, Uncle Joseph, what have you done with all that money?"
asked the lawyer.
'Paid it into a bank and drew twenty pounds,' answered Mr
Finsbury promptly. 'Why?'
'Very well,' said Michael. 'Tomorrow I shall send down a clerk
with a cheque for a hundred, and he'll draw out the original sum
and return it to the Anglo-Patagonian, with some sort of
explanation which I will try to invent for you. That will clear
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: parental enterprise cannot do may be done very effectively by
organized professional enterprise in large institutions established
for the purpose. And it is to such professional enterprise that
parents hand over their children when they can afford it. They send
their children to school; and there is, on the whole, nothing on earth
intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with,
it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison.
In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by
the warders and the governor (who of course would not be warders and
governors if they could write readable books), and beaten or otherwise
tormented if you cannot remember their utterly unmemorable contents.
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