| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: I never touched so delicate a blade.
I have a sword too, somewhat rusted now.
We men of peace are taught humility,
And to bear many burdens on our backs,
And not to murmur at an unjust world,
And to endure unjust indignities.
We are taught that, and like the patient Jew
Find profit in our pain.
Yet I remember
How once upon the road to Padua
A robber sought to take my pack-horse from me,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: going to do with them?" And no one seemed to care what he would
do. Jaffir with eight others quartered on the main hatch, looked
to each other's wounds and conversed interminably in low tones,
cheerful and quiet, like well-behaved children. Each of them had
saved his kris, but Lingard had to make a distribution of cotton
cloth out of his trade-goods. Whenever he passed by them, they
all looked after him gravely. Hassim and Immada lived in the
cuddy. The chief's sister took the air only in the evening and
those two could be heard every night, invisible and murmuring in
the shadows of the quarter-deck. Every Malay on board kept
respectfully away from them.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: rapidly moving southwards. It appeared that Kolyvan
was to be attacked on the north side. But were the Rus-
sians defending it or the Tartars? It being impossible to
decide this, Michael became greatly perplexed.
He was not more than half a verst from Kolyvan when
he observed flames shooting up among the houses of the
town, and the steeple of a church fell in the midst of clouds
of smoke and fire. Was the struggle, then, in Kolyvan?
Michael was compelled to think so. It was evident that
Russians and Tartars were fighting in the streets of the
town. Was this a time to seek refuge there? Would he
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