| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: presiding spirit. A woman in such a case needs the charm of a
mistress, combined with the solid qualities of a wife. To introduce an
element of uncertainty into pleasure is to prolong illusion, and
render lasting those selfish satisfactions which all creatures hold,
and should shroud a woman in expectancy, crown her sovereign, and
invest her with an exhaustless power, a redundancy of life, that makes
everything blossom around her. The more she is mistress of herself,
the more certainly will the love and happiness she creates be fit to
weather the storms of life.
But, above all, I have insisted on the greatest secrecy in regard to
our domestic arrangements. A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: and mild, melancholy eyes did not make much impression upon that
ponderous woman. He frequented the salons of the nobility, but saw
no face so beautiful as that of Parashka, the serf-maiden who
personated Venus for Simon Petrovitch. The fact is, he had a dim,
undeveloped instinct of culture, and a crude, half-conscious
worship of beauty,--both of which qualities found just enough
nourishment in the life of the capital to tantalize and never
satisfy his nature. He was excited by his new experience, but
hardly happier.
Athough but three-and-twenty, he would never know the rich,
vital glow with which youth rushes to clasp all forms of sensation.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: him; but the footprints by the spring seemed indisputable
evidence that one of Caprona's undeveloped men had borne off
the girl I loved.
As soon as I had assured myself that such was the case, I made my
preparations to follow and rescue her. Olson, Whitely, and
Wilson each wished to accompany me; but I told them that they
were needed here, since with Bradley's party still absent and the
Germans gone it was necessary that we conserve our force as far
as might be possible.
Chapter 8
It was a sad leave-taking as in silence I shook hands with each
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