| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: refuse. You know I would much sooner dance with you.
LORD AUGUSTUS. [With a low bow.] I wish I could think so, Mrs.
Erlynne.
MRS ERLYNNE. You know it far too well. I can fancy a person
dancing through life with you and finding it charming.
LORD AUGUSTUS. [Placing his hand on his white waistcoat.] Oh,
thank you, thank you. You are the most adorable of all ladies!
MRS. ERLYNNE. What a nice speech! So simple and so sincere! Just
the sort of speech I like. Well, you shall hold my bouquet. [Goes
towards ball-room on LORD WINDERMERE'S arm.] Ah, Mr. Dumby, how
are you? I am so sorry I have been out the last three times you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: but it warn't any use, and I couldn't get his eye either.
So the mud-turtle he tackled the witness, but it didn't
amount to nothing; and he made a mess of it.
Then they called up Jim Lane, and he told the very same story
over again, exact. Tom never listened to this one at all,
but set there thinking and thinking, miles and miles away.
So the mud-turtle went in alone again and come out just
as flat as he done before. The lawyer for the prostitution
looked very comfortable, but the judge looked disgusted.
You see, Tom was just the same as a regular lawyer, nearly,
because it was Arkansaw law for a prisoner to choose
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: "Stick to the programme, Enos," interrupted Mrs. Billings.
"Eunice Hazleton, then. I wish I could recollect some of the
speeches made on that occasion. Abel had but one pimple on his
temple (there was a purple spot where the other had been), and was
estimating that in two or three months more he would be a true,
unspoiled man. His complexion, nevertheless, was more clammy and
whey-like than ever.
"`Yes,' said he, `I also am an Arcadian! This false dual existence
which I have been leading will soon be merged in the unity of
Nature. Our lives must conform to her sacred law. Why can't we
strip off these hollow Shams,' (he made great use of that word,)
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