| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: say the least. And yet it came from his lips in such a
boyish way she felt sure that it was due to his
embarrassment in the unusual position in which he had
found himself with her.
His helplessness with the dictionary was proof, of
course, that he was no scholar. And yet a boy might
have a fair education in the schools of today and be
unfamiliar with this ponderous and dignified
encyclopedia of words. It was impossible to believe
that he was illiterate. His clothes, his carriage,
even his manners made such an idea preposterous.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: pleasure. Is not that the profit which you get out of the
investment? Isn't that the REAL profits and FIRST profit?
Y.M. Oh, well? Go on.
O.M. In ALL transactions, the Interior Master looks to it
that YOU GET THE FIRST PROFIT. Otherwise there is no
transaction.
Y.M. Well, then, if I was so anxious to get that profit and
so intent upon it, why did I threw it away by losing my temper?
O.M. In order to get ANOTHER profit which suddenly
superseded it in value.
Y.M. Where was it?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: mechanism that did unbelievable things when wound up,
for the clever, imaginative Hans. I was not to have the
joy of seeing their wide-eyed delight, but I knew that
there would follow certain laboriously scrawled letters,
filled with topsy-turvy capitals and crazily leaning words
of thanks to the doting old auntie who had been such good
fun the summer before.
Boarding-house Christmases had become an old story.
I had learned to accept them, even to those obscure and
foreign parts of turkey which are seen only on
boarding-house plates, and which would be recognized
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