| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Thank you."
"I'll send them to you, care of Charing Cross Post Office, if you
like, unless you'd rather I buried them six paces due east of the
fourteenth lamp-post on the west side of Edgware Road."
"I think," she said slowly, "I think I may as well take them with
me."
"Certainly, madam. Sign, please! But when, dear?"
"Well, I shall be at the Albert Hall next Friday."
"Girl Blue!"
"I don't suppose you're going, but perhaps you could send them by
someone who- "
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: was to open the meeting at one place, Lincoln at the next.
It was indeed a memorable contest. Douglas, the most skilled and
plausible speaker in the Democratic party, was battling for his
political life. He used every art, every resource, at his
command. Opposed to him was a veritable giant in stature--a man
whose qualities of mind and of body were as different from those
of the "Little Giant" -as could well be imagined. Lincoln was
direct, forceful, logical, and filled with a purpose as lofty as
his sense of right and justice was strong. He cared much for the
senatorship, but he cared far more to right the wrong of slavery,
and to warn people of the peril that menaced the land. Already in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: For such things in a false disloyall Knaue
Are trickes of Custome: but in a man that's iust,
They're close dilations, working from the heart,
That Passion cannot rule
Iago. For Michael Cassio,
I dare be sworne, I thinke that he is honest
Oth. I thinke so too
Iago. Men should be what they seeme,
Or those that be not, would they might seeme none
Oth. Certaine, men should be what they seeme
Iago. Why then I thinke Cassio's an honest man
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