| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: unhappy, individuals who possess the futile faculty of remembering
faces without recalling their accompanying names.
Girls, as a rule, are not adopted, being valueless genealogically.
A niece or grandniece to whom one has taken a great fancy might of
course be adopted there as elsewhere, but it would be distinctly out
of the every-day run, as she could never be included in the
household on strict business principles.
The practice of adopting is not confined to childless couples.
Others may find themselves in quite as unfortunate a predicament.
A man may be the father of a large and thriving family and yet be as
destitute patriarchally as if he had not a child to his name.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: This was but the beginning of Gordon Wright's list; he went on to say that
though he "thought as highly" of Miss Vivian as he had ever done, he felt
less at his ease with her than in the first weeks of their acquaintance,
and this condition made him uncomfortable and unhappy.
"I don't know what 's the matter," said poor Gordon.
"I don't know what has come between us. It is n't her fault--
I don't make her responsible for it. I began to notice
it about a fortnight ago--before you came; shortly after
that talk I had with her that I have just described to you.
Her manner has n't changed and I have no reason to suppose
that she likes me any the less; but she makes a strange
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
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