| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: roubles, is just as dishonest as my earning more than my chief
clerk, and Malthus getting more than a station-master. No, quite
the contrary; I see that society takes up a sort of antagonistic
attitude to these people,which is utterly baseless, and I fancy
there's envy at the bottom of it...."
"No, that's unfair," said Veslovsky; "how could envy come in?
There is something not nice about that sort of business."
"You say," Levin went on, "that it's unjust for me to receive
five thousand, while the peasant has fifty; that's true. It is
unfair, and I feel it, but . . ."
"It really is. Why is it we spend our time riding, drinking,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: TALBOT.
I speak not to that railing Hecate,
But unto thee, Alencon, and the rest;
Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?
ALENCON.
Signior, no.
TALBOT.
Signior, hang! base muleters of France!
Like peasant foot-boys do they keep the walls,
And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.
PUCELLE.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: everything that was movable was out of sight, having either
been stowed below, previous to the gale, or been washed
overboard. Some trifling parts of the quarter boards were
damaged by the breach of the sea; and one of the boats upon
deck was about one-third full of water, the oyle-hole or drain
having been accidently stopped up, and part of her gunwale had
received considerable injury. These observations were hastily
made, and not without occasionally shutting the companion, to
avoid being wetted by the successive seas which broke over the
bows and fell upon different parts of the deck according to
the impetus with which the waves struck the vessel. By this
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