| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: coquetry is sometimes more delightful than the pleasure of secure
possession of her love, and was possessed with helpless rage. If,
at this time, while she denied herself to love, Eugene gathered
the springtide spoils of his life, the fruit, somewhat sharp and
green, and dearly bought, was no less delicious to the taste.
There were moments when he had not a sou in his pockets, and at
such times he thought in spite of his conscience of Vautrin's
offer and the possibility of fortune by a marriage with Mlle.
Taillefer. Poverty would clamor so loudly that more than once he
was on the point of yielding to the cunning temptations of the
terrible sphinx, whose glance had so often exerted a strange
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: finances obliged me to take an outside place. Englishmen, as you
know, regard those airy perches on the top of the coach as the
best seats; and for the first few miles I discovered abundance of
excellent reasons for justifying the opinion of our neighbors. A
young fellow, apparently in somewhat better circumstances, who
came to take the seat beside me from preference, listened to my
reasoning with inoffensive smiles. An approximate nearness of
age, a similarity in ways of thinking, a common love of fresh
air, and of the rich landscape scenery through which the coach
was lumbering along,--these things, together with an
indescribable magnetic something, drew us before long into one of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: they don't believe you know anything about it, and they don't
trust your good intentions. They won't mind a bit what you say
unless you drop something they can use against us."
The bishop tried a few phrases. He thought there might be
something in co-operation, in profit-sharing, in some more
permanent relationship between the business and the employee.
"There isn't," said the employer compactly. "It's just the
malice of being inferior against the man in control. It's just
the spirit of insubordination and boredom with duty. This
trouble's as old as the Devil."
"But that is exactly the business of the church," said the
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