| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Kent. Here, sir; but trouble him not; his wits are gone.
Glou. Good friend, I prithee take him in thy arms.
I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him.
There is a litter ready; lay him in't
And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet
Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master.
If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,
With thine, and all that offer to defend him,
Stand in assured loss. Take up, take up!
And follow me, that will to some provision
Give thee quick conduct.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: ironic eye of Sheriff Burns upon him, he was strong for law
enforcement.
"A feller hadn't ought to be so promiscuous with his hardware.
This here thing of shooting up citizens don't do Wyoming no good
these days. Capital ain't a-going to come in when such goings-on
occur," he sagely opined, unconsciously parroting the sentiment
Burns had just been instilling into him.
"That's right, sir. If that ain't horse sense I don't know any.
You got a head on you, all right," answered the admiring sheriff.
The flattered Reddy pleaded guilty to being wiser than most men.
"Jest because I punch cows ain't any reason why I'm anybody's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I suppose I ought to give the wooden dummy a good start of me,"
growled Jim.
"Never mind that," said the Sawhorse. "I'll do the best I can."
"Go!" cried Zeb; and at the word the two horses leaped forward and the
race was begun.
Jim's big hoofs pounded away at a great rate, and although he did not
look very graceful he ran in a way to do credit to his Kentucky
breeding. But the Sawhorse was swifter than the wind. Its wooden
legs moved so fast that their twinkling could scarcely be seen, and
although so much smaller than the cab-horse it covered the ground much
faster. Before they had reached the trees the Sawhorse was far ahead,
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