| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of
our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us
to have missions. He should always say much more than he means,
and always mean much more than he says.
LADY HUNSTANTON. But how could he do both, dear?
MRS. ALLONBY. He should never run down other pretty women. That
would show he had no taste, or make one suspect that he had too
much. No; he should be nice about them all, but say that somehow
they don't attract him.
LADY STUTFIELD. Yes, that is always very, very pleasant to hear
about other women.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: persons carried away specimens of it, as part of a cargo from
the Bell Rock; when he added, that such was the interest
excited, from the number of specimens carried away, that some
of his friends suggested that he should have sent the whole to
the Cross of Edinburgh, where each piece might have sold for a
penny.
[Tuesday, 31st May]
In the evening the boats went to the rock, and brought
the joiners and smiths, and their sickly companions, on board
of the tender. These also brought with them two baskets full
of fish, which they had caught at high-water from the beacon,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: "And how do you expect people to sell you these things
when your foreign credit is not worth a farthing?"
"We shall pay in concessions, giving foreigners the right to
take raw materials. Timber, actual timber, is as good as
credit. We have huge areas of forest in the north, and every
country in Europe needs timber. Let that be our currency
for foreign purchases. We are prepared to say, 'You build
this, or give us that, and we will give you the right to take so
much timber for yourselves.' And so on. And concessions
of other kinds also. As a matter of fact negotiations are now
proceeding with a foreign firm for the building of a railway
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