| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: be seeming to avoid it, to avoid it rather than be seeming to make
it, and to keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather
than pedantic and portentous. Some such consideration as the
latter was doubtless in his mind for instance when he wrote
pleasantly to Miss Bartram that perhaps the great thing he had so
long felt as in the lap of the gods was no more than this
circumstance, which touched him so nearly, of her acquiring a house
in London. It was the first allusion they had yet again made,
needing any other hitherto so little; but when she replied, after
having given him the news, that she was by no means satisfied with
such a trifle as the climax to so special a suspense, she almost
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: He felt very sorry for her--not exactly that he believed that
she had completely lost her head, but because it was painful
to hear so much that was pretty, and undefended, and natural
assigned to a vulgar place among the categories of disorder.
He made an attempt after this to give a hint to Mrs. Miller.
He met one day in the Corso a friend, a tourist like himself,
who had just come out of the Doria Palace, where he had been
walking through the beautiful gallery. His friend talked
for a moment about the superb portrait of Innocent X by
Velasquez which hangs in one of the cabinets of the palace,
and then said, "And in the same cabinet, by the way, I had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: hear said of So-and-so: No wonder the man gets in no wheat from his
farm, when he takes no pains to have it sown or properly manured. Or
of some other that he grows no wine: Of course not, when he takes no
pains either to plant new vines or to make those he has bear fruit. A
third has neither figs nor olives; and again the self-same reason: He
too is careless, and takes no steps whatever to succeed in growing
either one or other. These are the distinctions which make all the
difference to prosperity in farming, far more than the reputed
discovery of any clever agricultural method or machine.[4]
[1] "Squire This."
[2] "Squire That."
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