The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: report of ruin, who will drop you with insult at a shadow of
disgrace, who do not know you and do not care to know you but
by sight, and whom you in your turn neither know nor care to
know in a more human manner? Is it not the principle of
society, openly avowed, that friendship must not interfere
with business; which being paraphrased, means simply that a
consideration of money goes before any consideration of
affection known to this cold-blooded gang, that they have not
even the honour of thieves, and will rook their nearest and
dearest as readily as a stranger? I hope I would go as far
as most to serve a friend; but I declare openly I would not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: been out, and, after a peep into the dim refectory, he presented
himself with much less than usual of his large looseness. He had
made sure, through the expanse of glass exposed to the court, that
they would be alone; and there was now in fact that about him that
pretty well took up the room. He was dressed in the garments of
summer; and save that his white waistcoat was redundant and bulging
these things favoured, they determined, his expression. He wore a
straw hat such as his friend hadn't yet seen in Paris, and he
showed a buttonhole freshly adorned with a magnificent rose.
Strether read on the instant his story--how, astir for the previous
hour, the sprinkled newness of the day, so pleasant at that season
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: The loathsome act of lust, and so did kill
The lechers in their deed: this act will be
My fame and thy perpetual infamy.
'With this, I did begin to start and cry,
And then against my heart he sets his sword,
Swearing, unless I took all patiently,
I should not live to speak another word;
So should my shame still rest upon record,
And never be forgot in mighty Rome
The adulterate death of Lucrece and her groom.
'Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak,
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