| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: and intelligent. She might be a girl from a Normal School."
"It is because you are just that," said Kate, "that she likes
you. She came here supposing that we had all been at such
schools. Then she complained of us,--us girls in what we call
good society, I mean,--because, as she more than hinted, we did
not seem to know anything."
"Some of the mothers were angry," said Hope. "But Aunt Jane
told her that it was perfectly true, and that her ladyship had
not yet seen the best-educated girls in America, who were
generally the daughters of old ministers and well-to-do
shopkeepers in small New England towns, Aunt Jane said."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: many are only one.
PROTARCHUS: But what, Socrates, are those other marvels connected with
this subject which, as you imply, have not yet become common and
acknowledged?
SOCRATES: When, my boy, the one does not belong to the class of things
that are born and perish, as in the instances which we were giving, for in
those cases, and when unity is of this concrete nature, there is, as I was
saying, a universal consent that no refutation is needed; but when the
assertion is made that man is one, or ox is one, or beauty one, or the good
one, then the interest which attaches to these and similar unities and the
attempt which is made to divide them gives birth to a controversy.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: and his intention of enjoying their society during the return to
the college was defeated. They had entered the building long
before he came in sight of it.
Somewhat out of conceit with his folly, he went to the servants'
entrance and rang the bell there. When the door was opened, he
saw Miss Ward standing behind the maid who admitted him.
"Oh," she said, looking at the string of skates as if she had
hardly expected to see them again, "so you have brought our
things back?"
"Such were my instructions," he said, taken aback by her manner.
"You had no instructions. What do you mean by getting our skates
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