| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: I never spent a pleasanter morning in my life."
"I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness
of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
"On the contrary, nothing can be a stronger proof
of it, Elinor; for if there had been any real impropriety
in what I did, I should have been sensible of it at
the time, for we always know when we are acting wrong,
and with such a conviction I could have had no pleasure."
"But, my dear Marianne, as it has already exposed you
to some very impertinent remarks, do you not now begin
to doubt the discretion of your own conduct?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: To knocke thy braines out with my Shackles.
ARCITE.
Doe.
KEEPER.
By your leave, Gentlemen--
PALAMON.
Now, honest keeper?
KEEPER.
Lord Arcite, you must presently to'th Duke;
The cause I know not yet.
ARCITE.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: "How do you ride it?" he inquired.
I took the bicycle off the veranda, rode about the court a time
or two, while he gazed at me with open mouth, and when I stopped
he ejaculated:
"That's queer; why doesn't it fall down?"
"When a thing's moving," I answered, "it can't fall down," which
might apply to other things than bicycles.
The next day when he called he said:
"The Emperor would like that bicycle," and my wife allowed him to
take it in to Kuang Hsu, and it was not long thereafter until it
was reported that the Emperor had been trying to ride the
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