| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: Mademoiselle de Watteville had reached the age when young persons are
easily struck by the peculiarities which attracted the attention of
the town to Amedee. There are so many /lions/ who become /lions/ out
of self-interest and speculation. The Wattevilles, who for twelve
years had been drawing an income of fifty thousand francs a year, did
not spend more than four-and-twenty thousand francs a year, while
receiving all the upper circle of Besancon every Monday and Friday. On
Monday they gave a dinner, on Friday an evening party. Thus, in twelve
years, what a sum must have accumulated from twenty-six thousand
francs a year, saved and invested with the judgment that distinguishes
those old families! It was very generally supposed that Madame de
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: most to admire the driver's valour or his undeserved good
fortune. But the latter at least prevailed, the cart reached
Cannon Street without disaster; and Mr Brown's piano was speedily
and cleverly got on board.
'Well, sir,' said the leading porter, smiling as he mentally
reckoned up a handful of loose silver, 'that's a mortal heavy
piano.'
'It's the richness of the tone,' returned Michael, as he drove
away.
It was but a little distance in the rain, which now fell thick
and quiet, to the neighbourhood of Mr Gideon Forsyth's chambers
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: be fear and greed instead of hope and love," Jeff agreed.
"Why is it that poverty coexists with wealth increasing so
rapidly? Why is it that productive power has been so enormously
developed without lightening the burdens of labor?"
Marchant's eyes were starlike in their earnestness. He had a
passion for humanity that neither want nor disease could quench,
and with it a certain gift of expression street oratory had
brought out. Even in private conversation he had got into the way
of declaiming. But Jeff knew he was no empty talker. All that he
had he literally gave to the poor.
"Because the whole spirit of business life is wrong," Farnum
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