| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: brought to do it, be it for only one day in his life. If there is
still work which is really disagreeable in itself, it is only
because our scientific men have never cared to consider the
means of rendering it less so: they have always known that there
were plenty of starving men who would do it for a few pence
a day.'' Kropotkin, ```Anarchist Communism.''
At present, the better paid work, that of the
business and professional classes, is for the most part
enjoyable. I do not mean that every separate
moment is agreeable, but that the life of a man who
has work of this sort is on the whole happier than
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: that Miss Austin even suspected the nature of his hopes: so
strong, in this unmannerly boy, was the principle of true courtesy;
so powerful, in this impetuous nature, the springs of self-
repression. And yet a boy he was; a boy in heart and mind; and it
was with a boy's chivalry and frankness that he won his wife. His
conduct was a model of honour, hardly of tact; to conceal love from
the loved one, to court her parents, to be silent and discreet till
these are won, and then without preparation to approach the lady -
these are not arts that I would recommend for imitation. They lead
to final refusal. Nothing saved Fleeming from that fate, but one
circumstance that cannot be counted upon - the hearty favour of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: impertinent laugh, as she seated herself, half beside and half
before my desk, off the corner of the table.
'I have had a good deal to do of late,' said I, without looking up
from my letter.
'Have you, indeed! Somebody said you had been strangely neglecting
your business these last few months.'
'Somebody said wrong, for, these last two months especially, I have
been particularly plodding and diligent.'
'Ah! well, there's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to
console the afflicted; - and, excuse me, Mr. Markham, but you look
so very far from well, and have been, by all accounts, so moody and
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