| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: "That must be fun," said Button-Bright.
"No, it's work," replied the old donkey; "but we make our youngsters
do all the whitewashing, to keep them out of mischief."
"Don't they go to school?" asked Dorothy.
"All donkeys are born wise," was the reply, "so the only school we
need is the school of experience. Books are only for those who know
nothing, and so are obliged to learn things from other people."
"In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows,"
observed the shaggy man. The grey donkey paid no attention to this
speech because he had just stopped before a house which had painted
over the doorway a pair of hoofs, with a donkey tail between them and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: given birth: that love for his friend was not the direct cause,
but a result of her suspension of love for himself.
'Such a matter must not be allowed to breed discord between us,'
Knight returned, relapsing into a manner which concealed all his
true feeling, as if confidence now was intolerable. 'I do see
that your reticence towards me in the vault may have been dictated
by prudential considerations.' He concluded artificially, 'It was
a strange thing altogether; but not of much importance, I suppose,
at this distance of time; and it does not concern me now, though I
don't mind hearing your story.'
These words from Knight, uttered with such an air of renunciation
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: exercise over himself. Monsieur Phellion came slowly up the stairs,
for he was afraid of asthma, having what he called an "adipose chest."
He saluted Antoine with dignity.
The next to follow was a copying-clerk, who presented a strange
contrast to the virtuous Phellion. Vimeux was a young man of twenty-
five, with a salary of fifteen hundred francs, well-made and graceful,
with a romantic face, and eyes, hair, beard, and eyebrows as black as
jet, fine teeth, charming hands, and wearing a moustache so carefully
trimmed that he seemed to have made it the business and occupation of
his life. Vimeux had such aptitude for work that he despatched it much
quicker than any of the other clerks. "He has a gift, that young man!"
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