| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: only lectured and fussed, but nursed and petted, too often without
thanks, the scrapes they have helped you out of, the tips
they have given you from their small store, the stitches the
patient old fingers have set for you, the steps the willing old
feet have taken, and gratefully pay the dear old ladies the little
attentions that women love to receive as long as they live. The
bright-eyed girls are quick to see such traits, and will like you
all the better for them, and if death, almost the only power that
can part mother and son, should rob you of yours, you will be sure
to find a tender welcome and maternal cherishing from some Aunt
Priscilla, who has kept the warmest corner of her lonely old heart
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: of Sweden and Bohemia, especially those which the rich merchants of
that day had in the Tyrol.
It was from that work, he said, that he learnt what he knew: from
the study of nature and of facts. He had heard all the learned
doctors and professors; he had read all their books, and they could
teach him nothing. Medicine was his monarch, and no one else. He
declared that there was more wisdom under his bald pate than in
Aristotle and Galen, Hippocrates and Rhasis. And fact seemed to be
on his side. He reappeared in Germany about 1525, and began working
wondrous cures. He had brought back with him from the East an
arcanum, a secret remedy, and laudanum was its name. He boasted,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: disent que les anges n'existent pas.
PREMIER SOLDAT. Je trouve que c'est ridicule de discuter sur de
telles choses.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Comme la princesse Salome est belle ce soir!
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Vous la regardez toujours. Vous la regardez
trop. Il ne faut pas regarder les gens de cette facon . . . Il peut
arriver un malheur.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Elle est tres belle ce soir.
PREMIER SOLDAT. Le tetrarque a l'air sombre.
SECOND SOLDAT. Oui, il a l'air sombre.
PREMIER SOLDAT. Il regarde quelque chose.
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