| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: incensed Recluse might have completed his vengeance by plunging
the weapon in Elliot's bosom, had he not been checked by an
internal impulse which made him hurl the knife to a distance.
"No," he exclaimed, as he thus voluntarily deprived himself of
the means of gratifying his rage; "not again--not again!"
Hobbie retreated a step or two in great surprise, discomposure,
and disdain, at having been placed in such danger by an object
apparently so contemptible.
"The deil's in the body for strength and bitterness!" were the
first words that escaped him, which he followed up with an
apology for the accident that had given rise to their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: really respected her only when unsexed and celibate, the French
woman had assumed, often lawlessly, always triumphantly, her just
freedom; her true place as the equal, the coadjutor, the counsellor
of man. Of all problems connected with the education of a young
prince, that of the influence of woman was, in the France of the
Ancien Regime, the most important. And it was just that which
Fenelon did not, perhaps dared not, try to touch; and which he most
certainly could not have solved. Meanwhile, not only Madame de
Maintenon, but women whose names it were a shame to couple with
hers, must have smiled at, while they hated, the saint who attempted
to dispense not only with them, but with the ideal queen who should
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: They had all the more reason for doing so because the news of their defeat
had spread across the countryside and made the animals on the neighbouring
farms more restive than ever. As usual, Snowball and Napoleon were in
disagreement. According to Napoleon, what the animals must do was to
procure firearms and train themselves in the use of them. According to
Snowball, they must send out more and more pigeons and stir up rebellion
among the animals on the other farms. The one argued that if they could
not defend themselves they were bound to be conquered, the other argued
that if rebellions happened everywhere they would have no need to defend
themselves. The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and
could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found
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