| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Cuivaca. I, for one, am tired of working for the gringos."
This met with the unqualified approval of all, and a few
moments later the men had saddled their ponies and were
galloping away in the direction of sun-baked Cuivaca. They
sang now, and were happy, for they were as little boys playing
hooky from school--not bad men; but rather irresponsible
children.
Once in Cuivaca they swooped down upon the drinking-place,
where, with what little money a few of them had left
they proceeded to get drunk.
Later in the day an old, dried-up Indian entered. He was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: repress.
"That is what Mr. Wilding has done me the honour to propose," Ruth
answered bitterly, and left them gaping. "We are to be married this
day se'night."
A dead silence followed the calm announcement. Then Diana rose. At the
misery, the anguish that could impress so strange and white a look on
Ruth's winsome face, she was smitten with remorse, her incipient
satisfaction dashed. This was her work; the fruit of her scheming. But
it had gone further than she had foreseen; and for all that no result
could better harmonize with her own ambitions and desires, for the
moment - under the first shock of that announcement - she felt guilty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: movable property. No one when he has got sufficient furniture for his
house dreams of making further purchases on this head, but of silver
no one ever yet possessed so much that he was forced to cry "enough."
On the contrary, if ever anybody does become possessed of an
immoderate amount he finds as much pleasure in digging a hole in the
ground and hoarding it as in the actual employment of it. And from a
wider point of view: when a state is prosperous there is nothing which
people so much desire as silver. The men want money to expend on
beautiful armour and fine horses, and houses, and sumptuous
paraphenalia[6] of all sorts. The women betake themselves to expensive
apparel and ornaments of gold. Or when states are sick,[7] either
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