| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: sleepy, good-natured, untrustable, Irish gray eye, and answer with
the prettiest smile:
"Shure, and didn't I think your honour would like a pleasant
answer?"
So you must not trust Dennis, because he is in the habit of giving
pleasant answers: but, instead of being angry with him, you must
remember that he is a poor Paddy, and knows no better; so you must
just burst out laughing; and then he will burst out laughing too,
and slave for you, and trot about after you, and show you good
sport if he can - for he is an affectionate fellow, and as fond of
sport as you are - and if he can't, tell you fibs instead, a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: With the sixth Azzo whom all virtues love;
This was the pedigree of worthies stout,
Who seemed in that bright shield to live and move.
Rinaldo waked up and cheered his face,
To see these worthies of his house and race.
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To do like acts his courage wished and sought,
And with that wish transported him so far
That all those deeds which filled aye his thought,
Towns won, forts taken, armies killed in war,
As if they were things done indeed and wrought,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "Neither do I--of some of them. But there are all kinds,
and many of them are charming."
"I have talked with two or three of them," the young man went on,
"and I thought they had a kind of fawning manner."
"Why should they fawn?" Bessie Alden demanded.
"I'm sure I don't know. Why, indeed?"
"Perhaps you only thought so," said Bessie.
"Well, of course," rejoined her companion, "that's a kind of thing
that can't be proved."
"In America they don't fawn," said Bessie.
"Ah, well, then, they must be better company."
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