| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: in the penitentiary on account of it.
Worst of all, the mother says the boy is the most malicious liar
she has ever heard of. They have had a frightful time with him
on account of this. For over two years John has been telling bad
stories about the step-father. Recently he could not stand it
any longer and left the mother. He was a good and rather strict
man who took much interest in the children. He tried rewards
with John, but this was of no avail. The boy has destroyed the
home life, but she thought it her duty to try further with her
own flesh and blood. The sister is in utter despair about what
John has said concerning her. The younger brother also feels
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so
artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous
luxuriance
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of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: fruition. And the illusion was characteristic. Fleeming believed
we had only to make a virtue cheap and easy, and then all would
practise it; that for an end unquestionably good, men would not
grudge a little trouble and a little money, though they might
stumble at laborious pains and generous sacrifices. He could not
believe in any resolute badness. 'I cannot quite say,' he wrote in
his young manhood, 'that I think there is no sin or misery. This I
can say: I do not remember one single malicious act done to
myself. In fact it is rather awkward when I have to say the Lord's
Prayer. I have nobody's trespasses to forgive.' And to the point,
I remember one of our discussions. I said it was a dangerous error
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