| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: "Why?" asked the lunatic.
"Why?--this is why: because, if you live and possess the qualities
which are estimated in your policy against the chances of death,--now,
attend to this--"
"I am attending."
"Well, then, you have succeeded in life; and you have succeeded
because of the said insurance. You doubled your chances of success by
getting rid of the anxieties you were dragging about with you in the
shape of wife and children who might otherwise be left destitute at
your death. If you attain this certainty, you have touched the value
of your intellectual capital, on which the cost of insurance is but a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: son should be enrolled a member of the same community. To this
end he had him baptized by a priest, a proceeding of which the
king wholly disapproved; not because his majesty was attached to
any religion in particular, but rather that he resented
interference with the infant whom he rested satisfied was his own
child. Accordingly, by the king's command, Lady Castlemaine's
son was rebaptized by the rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster,
in the presence of his majesty, the Earl of Oxford, and the
Countess of Suffolk, first lady of the bedchamber to the queen
and aunt to the king's mistress.
This exasperated my Lord Castlemaine to such a degree that high
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: he danced up and down and laughed aloud in boyish ecstacy.
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"I must give him a name!" he cried. "So good a man as this must surely have
a name. I believe," he added, after a moment's thought, "I will name the
fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'"
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15 The Marvelous Powder of Life
After considering the matter carefully, Tip decided that the best place to
locate Jack would be at the bend in the road, a little way from the house.
So he started to carry his man there, but found him heavy and rather awkward
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