| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: world but this honesty it is so celebrated for and so conceited
about; and so help me, I do believe that if ever the day comes that
its honesty falls under great temptation, its grand reputation will
go to ruin like a house of cards. There, now, I've made confession,
and I feel better; I am a humbug, and I've been one all my life,
without knowing it. Let no man call me honest again--I will not
have it."
"I-- Well, Mary, I feel a good deal as you do: I certainly do. It
seems strange, too, so strange. I never could have believed it--
never."
A long silence followed; both were sunk in thought. At last the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the library, where the sight of the pearls produced a tremendous
excitement, and then every one had to go down to the store room,
and see where the necklace had been hidden, and Max examined all
the bars of soap for thumb prints.
Mr. Harbison did not appear. Max commented on the fact
caustically, but Dal hushed him up. And so, Anne hugging her
pearls, and Aunt Selina having put a final seasoning of washing
powder on the clothes in the tub, we all went upstairs to bed. It
had been a long day, and the morning would at least bring bridge.
I was almost ready for bed when Jim tapped at my door. I had been
very cool to him since the night in the library when I was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: The Arabs of the desert are keener in misbelief and hypocrisy, and
are more likely not to know the bounds which God has sent down to
His Apostle; but God is knowing and wise.
And of the Arabs of the desert are some who take what they expend to
be a forced loan, and they wait a turn of fortune against you; against
them shall a turn of evil fortune be; for God both hears and knows.
And of the Arabs of the desert are some who believe in God and
the last day, and who take what they expend in alms to be a means of
approach to God and to the Apostle's prayers,- is it not a means of
approach for them? God will make them enter into His mercy; verily,
God is forgiving and merciful.
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