| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: "Well, you are a nice person to have professed things!"
But historic truth compels me to declare that Tita Bordereau's
countenance expressed unqualified pleasure in seeing her late
aunt's lodger. That touched him extremely, and he thought
it simplified his situation until he found it did not.
I was as kind to her that evening as I knew how to be,
and I walked about the garden with her for half an hour.
There was no explanation of any sort between us; I did not ask
her why she had not answered my letter. Still less did I repeat
what I had said to her in that communication; if she chose to let
me suppose that she had forgotten the position in which Miss
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: district. After that, not a week passed without sick people
coming, riding or on foot, to Father Sergius; and having acceded
to one petition he could not refuse others, and he laid his hands
on many and prayed. Many recovered, and his fame spread more and
more.
So seven years passed in the Monastery and thirteen in his
hermit's cell. He now had the appearance of an old man: his
beard was long and grey, but his hair, though thin, was still
black and curly.
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For some weeks Father Sergius had been living with one persistent
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: facts to provide the children with meals, with boots, with spectacles,
with dentists and doctors. In fact, when the child's parents are
destitute or not to be found, bread, lodging, and clothing are
provided. It is true that they are provided grudgingly and on
conditions infamous enough to draw down abundant fire from Heaven upon
us every day in the shape of crime and disease and vice; but still the
practice of keeping children barely alive at the charge of the
community is established; and there is no need for me to argue about
it. I propose only two extensions of the practice. One is to provide
for all the child's reasonable human wants, on which point, if you
differ from me, I shall take leave to say that you are socially a fool
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