| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: old Bracknell house at Salem there hung a series of yellowing
prints which Uncle Richard Saulsbee had brought home from one of
his long voyages: views of heathen mosques and palaces, of the
Grand Turk's Seraglio, of St. Peter's Church in Rome; and, in a
corner--the corner nearest the rack where the old flintlocks
hung--a busy merry populous scene, entitled: ST. MARK'S SQUARE IN
VENICE. This picture, from the first, had singularly taken
little Tony's fancy. His unformulated criticism on the others
was that they lacked action. True, in the view of St. Peter's an
experienced-looking gentleman in a full-bottomed wig was pointing
out the fairly obvious monument to a bashful companion, who had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.
SIMONIDES.
Traitor, thou liest.
PERICLES.
Traitor!
SIMONIDES.
Ay, traitor;
PERICLES.
Even in his throat -- unless it be the king --
That calls me traitor, I return the lie.
SIMONIDES. [Aside.]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: going to the superintendent for his opinion. He is a Harvard man,
but he worked his way through school and one of his jobs was
bellboy in a hotel. Had he been too proud to work as a servant he
would never have gotten the education that makes him head of this
great school. Didn't you ever scrub a floor on your knees? You
can see the dirt come out with the suds and you can watch the
grain of the wood appear, where before it was hidden by dust and
grease. If you never saw that, you have missed something that I
have seen many a time. To know how to scrub a floor is as much a
part of your education as to know how to sandpaper a floor and
varnish it. We could hire this work done better than you can do
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