| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: MARGERY.
You, master saucebox, lobcock, cockscomb, you slopsauce,
lickfingers, will you not hear?
STRUMBO.
Who speak you to? me?
MARGERY.
Aye, sir, to you, John lackhonesty, little wit. Is it you that
will have none of me?
STRUMBO.
No, by my troth, mistress nicebice. How fine you can
nickname me. I think you were brought up in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: sufficient continence and self-command in those respects. So that if
you will only advise me on what I am to do to improve my estate, I
flatter myself I shall not be hindered by those despotic dames, as you
call them. Come, do not hesitate; only tender me what good advice you
can, and trust me I will follow it. But perhaps, Socrates, you have
already passed sentence on us--we are rich enough already, and not in
need of any further wealth?
Soc. It is to myself rather, if I may be included in your plural "we,"
that I should apply the remark. I am not in need of any further
wealth, if you like. I am rich enough already, to be sure. But you,
Critobulus, I look upon as singularly poor, and at times, upon my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: Orde smiled.
"Do I?" said he.
"Of course," went on Taylor after a moment, "we have a strong
presumption of conspiracy to get hold of your Boom Company stock,
which I believe you put up as security. But I don't see how we have
any incontestable proof of it."
"Proof? What more do we want?"
"We'd have no witness to any of these transactions; nor have we
documentary proofs. It's merely moral certainty; and moral
certainty isn't much in a court of law. I'll see him, if you say
so, though, and scare him into some sort of an arrangement."
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