| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: does, like ice cream, all at once and all over. I sat perfectly
still in a large chair, and except for an ocasional sneaze, was quiet.
Only once did my parent adress me in an hour, when he said:
"What the devil's making you sneaze so?"
"My noze, I think, sir," I said meekly.
"Humph!" he said. "It's rather a small noze to be making such a racket."
I was cut to the heart, dear Dairy. One of my dearest dreams has
always been a delicate noze, slightly arched and long enough to be
truly aristocratic. Not realy acqualine but on the verge. I HATE my
little noze--hate it--hate it--HATE IT.
"Father" I said, rising and on the point of tears. "How can you! To
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: "Ah," she murmured. She sank into her chair again and began to
play with a paper-knife that lay on the table at her elbow.
Her silence exasperated him.
"Well?" he burst out. "Is that all you have to say?"
"Do you wish me to explain?" she asked, proudly.
"Do you imply I haven't the right to?"
"I imply nothing. I will tell you whatever you wish to know. I
went for a walk with Mr. Flamel because he asked me to."
"I didn't suppose you went uninvited. But there are certain
things a sensible woman doesn't do. She doesn't slink about in
out-of-the-way streets with men. Why couldn't you have seen him
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli: first rank, he was in the second, for whenever one has judgment to
know good and bad when it is said and done, although he himself may
not have the initiative, yet he can recognize the good and the bad in
his servant, and the one he can praise and the other correct; thus the
servant cannot hope to deceive him, and is kept honest.
But to enable a prince to form an opinion of his servant there is one
test which never fails; when you see the servant thinking more of his
own interests than of yours, and seeking inwardly his own profit in
everything, such a man will never make a good servant, nor will you
ever be able to trust him; because he who has the state of another in
his hands ought never to think of himself, but always of his prince,
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