| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: saying he craned his neck forward and looked afar off.
"What is it you see?" said the Fox.
"It is only my master's Dog that is coming towards us. What,
going so soon?" he continued, as the Fox began to turn away as
soon as he had heard the news. "Will you not stop and
congratulate the Dog on the reign of universal peace?"
"I would gladly do so," said the Fox, "but I fear he may not
have heard of King Lion's decree."
Cunning often outwits itself.
The Wind and the Sun
The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: The other two crossed the room to us at that, and Judy gaily made
Somers over to his mother, trailing off to find Robert in the
billiard-room.
'Well, what has Mrs. Harbottle been telling you?' Anna asked him.
The young man's eye followed Judy, his hand went musingly to his
moustache.
'She was telling me,' he said, 'that people in India were sepulchers
of themselves, but that now and then one came who could roll away
another's stone.'
'It sounds promising,' said Lady Chichele to me.
'It sounds cryptic,' I laughed to Somers, but I saw that he had the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: more prominent, shone on by the full light of the large window,
were the occupants of the benches just before me, of whom some
were girls of fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, some young women from
eighteen (as it appeared to me) up to twenty; the most modest
attire, the simplest fashion of wearing the hair, were apparent
in all; and good features, ruddy, blooming complexions, large and
brilliant eyes, forms full, even to solidity, seemed to abound.
I did not bear the first view like a stoic; I was dazzled, my
eyes fell, and in a voice somewhat too low I murmured--
"Prenez vos cahiers de dictee, mesdemoiselles."
Not so had I bid the boys at Pelet's take their reading-books. A
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