| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: All its children, sweep and prince,
Grown to manhood ages since,
Not a foot in street or house,
Not a stir of child or mouse,
And when kindly falls the night,
In all the town no spark of light.
There I'll come when I'm a man
With a camel caravan;
Light a fire in the gloom
Of some dusty dining-room;
See the pictures on the walls,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: this very road.'
'Done!' cried I. 'Bedford be it!'
I tucked his arm under mine, possessed myself of the valise, and
walked him off unresisting. Presently we came to an open piece of
country lying a thought downhill. The road was smooth and free of
ice, the moonshine thin and bright over the meadows and the
leafless trees. I was now honestly done with the purgatory of the
covered cart; I was close to my great-uncle's; I had no more fear
of Mr. Dudgeon; which were all grounds enough for jollity. And I
was aware, besides, of us two as of a pair of tiny and solitary
dolls under the vast frosty cupola of the midnight; the rooms
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: she could upon occasion look so helpless and appealing that she
melted hearts. With no difficulty whatever she could mutely convey
the impression of a brave but timid lady, forced by brutal
circumstance into a distasteful position, a helpless little lady
who would probably starve if customers didn't buy her lumber. But
when ladylike airs failed to get results she was coldly businesslike
and willingly undersold her competitors at a loss to herself if it
would bring her a new customer. She was not above selling a poor
grade of lumber for the price of good lumber if she thought she
would not be detected, and she had no scruples about black-guarding
the other lumber dealers. With every appearance of reluctance at
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