| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands
together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug."
"But this is terrible," said the Tin Woodman. "How shall I
ever get my heart?"
"Or I my courage?" asked the Lion.
"Or I my brains?" wailed the Scarecrow, wiping the tears from
his eyes with his coat sleeve.
"My dear friends," said Oz, "I pray you not to speak of these
little things. Think of me, and the terrible trouble I'm in at
being found out."
"Doesn't anyone else know you're a humbug?" asked Dorothy.
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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: plenty. Should the master (he proceeded), being a man possessed of so
much power, Socrates, to injure the bad workman and reward the zealous
--should he suddenly appear, and should his appearance in the labour
field produce no visible effect upon his workpeople, I cannot say I
envy or admire him. But if the sight of him is followed by a stir of
movement, if there come upon[13] each labourer fresh spirit, with
mutual rivaly and keen ambition, drawing out the finest qualities of
each,[14] of him I should say, Behold a man of kingly disposition. And
this, if I mistake not, is the quality of greatest import in every
operation which needs the instrumentality of man; but most of all,
perhaps, in agriculture. Not that I would maintain that it is a thing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: stand that to-night," with her old comical shrug.
Lucy's entreaties were vain.
But as the train rushed through the valley of the Isar
that night, Frances looked forward into the darkness with
a nameless terror. "That child was so healthy and sane,"
she said, "I wish I had stayed with her longer."
CHAPTER XII
Prince Hugo had made no secret of his intentions with
regard to Miss Dunbar, so that when it was known that his
sisters and the rich American Mees would at last meet at
the Countess von Amte's there was a flutter of curiosity
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