| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: culture and moral elevation than hatred and aversion. Woman is as
tearful and as coarse in her feelings now as she was in the
Middle Ages, and to my thinking those who advise that she should
be educated like a man are quite right.
My wife also dislikes Katya for having been an actress, for
ingratitude, for pride, for eccentricity, and for the numerous
vices which one woman can always find in another.
Besides my wife and daughter and me, there are dining with us two
or three of my daughter's friends and Alexandr Adolfovitch
Gnekker, her admirer and suitor. He is a fair-haired young man
under thirty, of medium height, very stout and broad-shouldered,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: the other. "I couldn't believe that he had got white
of his own accord! It seemed supernatural."
"I gave up dealing in reddle last Christmas," said Venn.
"It was a profitable trade, and I found that by that
time I had made enough to take the dairy of fifty cows
that my father had in his lifetime. I always thought
of getting to that place again if I changed at all,
and now I am there."
"How did you manage to become white, Diggory?" Thomasin asked.
"I turned so by degrees, ma'am."
"You look much better than ever you did before."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: why': and so, when, later on, the critical and self-conscious
spirit develops in him, he 'will recognise and salute it as a
friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.' I need
hardly say, Ernest, how far we in England have fallen short of this
ideal, and I can imagine the smile that would illuminate the glossy
face of the Philistine if one ventured to suggest to him that the
true aim of education was the love of beauty, and that the methods
by which education should work were the development of temperament,
the cultivation of taste, and the creation of the critical spirit.
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and
the dulness of tutors and professors matters very little when one
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