| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: called him by name, but he had sworn not to see her, and he
did not. Besides -- and he wished it with his whole heart --
she might have fled into some quiet portion of the steppe.
The mujik very fortunately knew a postmaster who, if
well paid, would not refuse at his request either to let or
to sell a carriage or horses. There remained the difficulty
of leaving the town, but the breaches in the fortifications
would, of course, facilitate his departure.
The mujik was accordingly conducting his guest straight
to the posting-house, when, in a narrow street, Michael
Strogoff, coming to a sudden stop sprang behind a jutting
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: approach to sudden riches, which I considered myself,
however contrarily to the laws of computation, as
having missed by a single chance; and I could not
forbear to revolve the consequences which such as
bounteous allotment would have produced, if it had
happened to me. This dream of felicity, by degrees,
took possession of my imagination. The great delight
of my solitary hours was to purchase an estate,
and form plantations with money which once might
have been mine, and I never met my friends but I
spoiled all their merriment by perpetual complaints
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: all their habits and ways of thinking, and all
her own demerits. How could _she_ have excited
serious attachment in a man who had seen so many,
and been admired by so many, and flirted with so many,
infinitely her superiors; who seemed so little open
to serious impressions, even where pains had been taken
to please him; who thought so slightly, so carelessly,
so unfeelingly on all such points; who was everything
to everybody, and seemed to find no one essential to him?
And farther, how could it be supposed that his sister,
with all her high and worldly notions of matrimony,
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