| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: "Madame Rabourdin looked delightfully handsome," added du Bruel.
"There are not two women like her in Paris. Some are as clever as she,
but there's not one so gracefully witty. Many women may even be
handsomer, but it would be hard to find one with such variety of
beauty. Madame Rabourdin is far superior to Madame Colleville," said
the vaudevillist, remembering des Lupeaulx's former affair. "Flavie
owes what she is to the men about her, whereas Madame Rabourdin is all
things in herself. It is wonderful too what she knows; you can't tell
secrets in Latin before HER. If I had such a wife, I know I should
succeed in everything."
"You have more mind than an author ought to have," returned des
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: reign of Brandeis needs not to be argued: the policy is throughout
that of an able, over-hasty white, with eyes and ideas. But it
should be borne in mind that he had a double task, and must first
lead his sovereign, before he could begin to drive their common
subjects. Meanwhile, he himself was exposed (if all tales be true)
to much dictation and interference, and to some "cumbrous aid,"
from the consulate and the firm. And to one of these aids, the
suppression of the municipality, I am inclined to attribute his
ultimate failure.
The white enemies of the new regimen were of two classes. In the
first stood Moors and the employes of MacArthur, the two chief
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: other similar victories, it is easy to guess what followed.[6] It was
just as when some shepherd has got a very good dog, all the other
shepherds wish to lodge their flocks in his neighbourhood that they
too may reap the benefit of him. So a number of Crito's friends came
begging him to allow Archedemus to be their guardian also, and
Archedemus was overjoyed to do something to gratify Crito, and so it
came about that not only Crito abode in peace, but his friends
likewise. If any of those people with whom Archedemus was not on the
best of terms were disposed to throw it in his teeth that he accepted
his patron's benefits and paid in flatteries, he had a ready retort:
"Answer me this question--which is the more scandalous, to accept
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