| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: glad to get back. I've found out one thing, and it's a great
little lesson when you get it learned. Most of us are where we are
because we belong there, and if we didn't, we wouldn't be. Say,
that does sound mixed, don't it? But it's straight. Now you tell
yours."
"I think you've said it all," began Guy Peel. "It's queer,
isn't it, how twelve years of America will spoil one for afternoon
tea, and yew trees, and tapestries, and lace caps, and roses. The
mater was glad to see me, but she said I smelled woolly. They
think a Navajo blanket is a thing the Indians wear on the war path,
and they don't know whether Texas is a state, or a mineral water.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: husband. Englishmen and Scotchmen introduced the new society into
Russia and into Geneva. Sweden and Poland seem to have received it
from France; while, in the South, it seems to have been exclusively
an English plant. Sackville, Duke of Middlesex, is said to have
founded the first lodge at Florence in 1733, Lord Coleraine at
Gibraltar and Madrid, one Gordon in Portugal; and everywhere, at the
commencement of the movement, we find either London or Scotland the
mother-lodges, introducing on the Continent those liberal and humane
ideas of which England was then considered, to her glory, as the
only home left on earth.
But, alas! the seed sown grew up into strange shapes, according to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: CHARLES. Pshaw--you may do both--Caesar made Love and Laws
in a Breath--and was liked by the Senate as well as the Ladies--
but no man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer
of wine--'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart--
fill a dozen Bumpers to a dozen Beauties, and she that floats
atop is the maid that has bewitched you.
CARELESS. Now then Charles--be honest and give us yours----
CHARLES. Why I have withheld her only in compassion to you--
if I toast her you should give a round of her Peers, which
is impossible! on earth!
CARELESS. O, then we'll find some canonized Vestals or heathen
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