| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: memory, records the earliest conversation which I held with her.
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And did you happen to observe, Ischomachus (I asked), whether, as the
result of what was said, your wife was stirred at all to greater
carefulness?
Yes, certainly (Ischomachus answered), and I remember how piqued she
was at one time and how deeply she blushed, when I chanced to ask her
for something which had been brought into the house, and she could not
give it me. So I, when I saw her annoyance, fell to consoling her. "Do
not be at all disheartened, my wife, that you cannot give me what I
ask for. It is plain poverty,[1] no doubt, to need a thing and not to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: encountered, instead of, as at present, imprisoning the human race in
dusty or muddy thoroughfares between walls of barbed wire.
The reaction against vagabondage will come from the children
themselves. For them freedom will not mean the expensive kind of
savagery now called "the simple life." Their natural disgust with the
visions of cockney book fanciers blowing themselves out with "the wind
on the heath, brother," and of anarchists who are either too weak to
understand that men are strong and free in proportion to the social
pressure they can stand and the complexity of the obligations they are
prepared to undertake, or too strong to realize that what is freedom
to them may be terror and bewilderment to others, will drive them back
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: To vex his mind with such a heartless child,
With the sharp point of this my battle-axe,
I would send thy soul to Puriflegiton.
THRASIMACHUS.
Though I be young and of a tender age,
Yet will I cope with Locrine when he dares.
My noble father with his conquering sword,
Slew the two giants, kings of Aquitaine.
Thrasimachus is not so degenerate
That he should fear and tremble at the looks
Or taunting words of a venerian squire.
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