| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: to the visitors, court ladies, the Empress Dowager, or attendants
during all the hours we remained.
"One of the ministers told me that one day after an audience,
when the Empress Dowager and the Emperor had stepped down from
the dais, Her Majesty was engaged in conversation with one of his
colleagues, and as the Emperor stood near by, he made some remark
to him. Immediately the Empress Dowager turned from the one to
whom she had been talking and made answer for the Emperor.
"On one occasion when there were but four of us in the palace,
and we were all comfortably seated, the Emperor standing a few
paces behind the Empress Dowager, she began discussing the Boxer
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: had just brains enough to appreciate the value of his "ghost" and to
know that Marcas, if he ever came to the front, would remain there,
would be indispensable, while he himself would be translated to the
polar zone of Luxembourg. So he determined to put insurmountable
obstacles in the way of his Mentor's advancement, and hid his purpose
under the semblance of the utmost sincerity. Like all mean men, he
could dissimulate to perfection, and he soon made progress in the ways
of ingratitude, for he felt that he must kill Marcas, not to be killed
by him. These two men, apparently so united, hated each other as soon
as one had deceived the other.
The politician was made one of a ministry; Marcas remained in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: added Bertie.
In the hours of trial they would often express their education thus.
"Philosophers I have met," murmured Billy, with scorn And they ate
silently for some time.
"There's one thing that's valuable," said Bertie next. "When they
spring those tricks on you about the flying arrow not moving, and all
the rest, and prove it all right by logic, you learn what pure logic
amounts to when it cuts loose from common sense. And Oscar thinks it's
immense. We shocked him."
"He's found the Bird-in-Hand!" cried Billy, quite suddenly.
"Oscar?" said Bertie, with an equal shout.
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