| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: vacant seat in the Cabinet.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. [With a look of joy and triumph.] A seat in
the Cabinet?
LORD CAVERSHAM. Yes; here is the Prime Minister's letter. [Hands
letter.]
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. [Takes letter and reads it.] A seat in the
Cabinet!
LORD CAVERSHAM. Certainly, and you well deserve it too. You have
got what we want so much in political life nowadays - high character,
high moral tone, high principles. [To LORD GORING.] Everything that
you have not got, sir, and never will have.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: Prior, however, to the enquiry about the writings of a particular author,
general considerations which equally affect all evidence to the genuineness
of ancient writings are the following: Shorter works are more likely to
have been forged, or to have received an erroneous designation, than longer
ones; and some kinds of composition, such as epistles or panegyrical
orations, are more liable to suspicion than others; those, again, which
have a taste of sophistry in them, or the ring of a later age, or the
slighter character of a rhetorical exercise, or in which a motive or some
affinity to spurious writings can be detected, or which seem to have
originated in a name or statement really occurring in some classical
author, are also of doubtful credit; while there is no instance of any
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: There's an artist waiting ready at each bleak
and dismal spot
To paint the flashing tulip or the meek forget-
me-not.
May is lurking in the distance and her lap is
filled with flowers,
And the choicest of her blossoms very shortly
will be ours.
There is not a lane so dreary or a field so dark
with gloom
But that soon will be resplendent with its little
A Heap O' Livin' |
