| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: compare, for instance, the amount of difference between the males of
gallinaceous birds, in which secondary sexual characters are strongly
displayed, with the amount of difference between their females; and the
truth of this proposition will be granted. The cause of the original
variability of secondary sexual characters is not manifest; but we can see
why these characters should not have been rendered as constant and uniform
as other parts of the organisation; for secondary sexual characters have
been accumulated by sexual selection, which is less rigid in its action
than ordinary selection, as it does not entail death, but only gives fewer
offspring to the less favoured males. Whatever the cause may be of the
variability of secondary sexual characters, as they are highly variable,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: Outfits for mourners who have been bereaved on short notice a
specialty. We take orders for tombstones. Look at our
line of shrouds, robes, and black suits for either sex and
any age. Give us just one call, and you will entrust future
embalmings and obsequies in your family to no other firm.
WILCOX AND SIMMS
Main Street, Near Depot
The doctor, he reads it over careful and says she
orter drum up trade, all right. Looey tells us that
mebby, if he can get that town educated up to it,
he will put in a creamatory, where he will burn
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: be doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an
opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were
you not kindness itself."
The marquise looked at the young man with an air of some surprise, but
she answered with dignity:--
"Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me, I
promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
deserve."
"Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there
was no offence. The letter," he added, in a low voice, "which you
received, and which you must have thought extremely unbecoming, was
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