| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: will,--to run into the opposite extreme.--In the language of the county
where he dwelt, he was said to have loved a good horse, and generally had
one of the best in the whole parish standing in his stable always ready for
saddling: and as the nearest midwife, as I told you, did not live nearer to
the village than seven miles, and in a vile country,--it so fell out that
the poor gentleman was scarce a whole week together without some piteous
application for his beast; and as he was not an unkind-hearted man, and
every case was more pressing and more distressful than the last;--as much
as he loved his beast, he had never a heart to refuse him; the upshot of
which was generally this; that his horse was either clapp'd, or spavin'd,
or greaz'd;--or he was twitter-bon'd, or broken-winded, or something, in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: her uncle Daniel Jansenius, a jolly and indulgent man. He opined
that things would come right as soon as both parties grew more
sensible; and, as to which of them was, in fault, his verdict
was, six of one and half a dozen of the other. Whenever he saw
his niece pensive or tearful he laughed at her and called her a
grass widow. Henrietta found that she could endure anything
rather than this. Declaring that the world was hateful to her,
she hired a furnished villa in St. John's Wood, whither she moved
in December. But, suffering much there from loneliness, she soon
wrote a pathetic letter to Agatha, entreating her to spend the
approaching Christmas vacation with her, and promising her every
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: and that name England? I thought you were a lady-abbess five
minutes ago, and respected you accordingly; and now I see you are
a sort of Swiss sibyl, with high Tory and high Church
principles!"
"England is your country?" asked Frances.
"Yes."
"And you don't like it?"
"I'd be sorry to like it! A little corrupt, venal,
lord-and-king-cursed nation, full or mucky pride (as they say in
---shire), and helpless pauperism; rotten with abuses, worm-eaten
with prejudices!"
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