| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: matches her hair I guess. Well, good evening, Marilla.
I hope you'll come down to see me often as usual. But you
can't expect me to visit here again in a hurry, if I'm
liable to be flown at and insulted in such a fashion.
It's something new in MY experience."
Whereat Mrs. Rachel swept out and away--if a fat woman who
always waddled COULD be said to sweep away--and Marilla with
a very solemn face betook herself to the east gable.
On the way upstairs she pondered uneasily as to what
she ought to do. She felt no little dismay over the
scene that had just been enacted. How unfortunate that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the
same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life
and death.
The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies
spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will
find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
Nothing more unqualifies a man to act with prudence than a
misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the
happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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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: "Well, we'd get them."
It was now Orde's turn to ask questions.
"How much are you worth?" he inquired bluntly.
"About twenty thousand dollars," replied Newmark.
"Well, if I raise very much more than twenty thousand cents, I'm
lucky just now."
"How much capital would we have to have?" asked Newmark.
Orde thought for several minutes, twisting the petal of an old
apple-blossom between his strong, blunt fingers.
"Somewhere near seventy-five thousand dollars," he estimated at
last.
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