| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to
me."
"You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you
will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do
tell him that I know him to be innocent."
"I will, Miss Turner."
"I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if
I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She
hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we
heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street.
"I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: witness in so great a cause?
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Wouldst thou have men speak good of thee? speak good of
them. And when thou hast learned to speak good of them, try to do
good unto them, and thus thou wilt reap in return their speaking
good of thee.
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When thou goest in to any of the great, remember that
Another from above sees what is passing, and that thou shouldst
please Him rather than man. He therefore asks thee:--
"In the Schools, what didst thou call exile, imprisionment,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: college friendships, that we fancy that no University in the
kingdom is in so poor a plight. Our system is full of
anomalies. A, who cut B whilst he was a shabby student,
curries sedulously up to him and cudgels his memory for
anecdotes about him when he becomes the great so-and-so. Let
there be an end of this shy, proud reserve on the one hand,
and this shuddering fine ladyism on the other; and we think
we shall find both ourselves and the College bettered. Let
it be a sufficient reason for intercourse that two men sit
together on the same benches. Let the great A be held
excused for nodding to the shabby B in Princes Street, if he
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