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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ballads of the Boer War" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Baby's Baedeker" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the perfect tense of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stately Ho(l)mes, To t'other of The Breakfast Table; Like Galahad, I wish (in vain)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My wit were as the wit of Twain!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Virtue is Its Own Reward" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lectures on the Holy Land." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Short life" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bridge he always makes a Slam After declaring" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sans atout" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mens Inconscia Recti" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An onion and a dish of tripe, Or headpiece of the kindly calf. (Cruel perhaps, but then, you know," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enough is Very Good, may be; Too Much is Good Enough for Me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fools and Their Money soon must part!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mossyface!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good is Wrought by want of Port." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It _Never_ is Too Late to Mend!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't Look a Gifthorse in the Mouth" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was evidently well imbued With all the elements of Truth; (While he who said" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Uneasy lies The tooth that wears a crown" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One must be poor, George Eliot said," }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The sweetest things that ever grew Beside a human door" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The best laid schemes Of Mice and Men gang aft agley!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Intention" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What has become of them?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It won't do any harm to hear his story, anyway," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Busen fuhlt sich jugendlich erschuttert, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of youth flit before one again,--Cruikshank's thrush begins to pipe and carol, as in the days of boyhood; hence misty moralities, reflections, and sad and pleasant remembrances arise. He is t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dandy of sixty, who used to glance at us from Hone's friendly windows--where are they? Mr. Cruikshank may have drawn a thousand better things since the days when these were; but they are to us a thousand times more pleasing than anything else he has done. How we used to believe ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't tell the story of Grouse in the Gun-room, master, or I can't help laughing. Repeat that history ever so often, and at the proper moment, honest Diggory is sure to explode. Every man, no doubt, who loves Cruikshank has his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grouse i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mirth and Morality," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who has not chased the butterfly, And crushed its slender legs and wings, And heaved a moralizing sigh: Alas! how frail are human things!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love to go back to the days of my youth, And to reckon my joys to the letter, And to count o'er the friends that I have in the world, Ay, and those who are gone to a better." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of all the men I have ever known, says he," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack the Giant Killer, may" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tom Thumb, may" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Puss in Boots," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Louis XVIII. trying on Napoleon's boots," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life in Paris, or the five hundred designs in which Frenchmen are introduced, and he will find them almost invariably thin, with ludicrous spindle-shanks, pigtails, outstretched hands, shrugging shoulders, and queer hair and mustachios. He has the British idea of a Frenchman; an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life in Paris, published in 1822, contains a number of the artist's plates in the aquatint style; and though we believe he had never been in that capital, the designs have a great deal of life in them, and pass muster very well. A villanous race of shoulder-shrugging mortals are...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life in London," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom and Jerry and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life in Paris, Mr. Cruikshank produced a much more elaborate set of prints, in a work which was called" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Points of Humor. These" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jolly Beggars have all had their portraits drawn by Cruikshank. There is the lovely" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A pigmy scraper wi' his fiddle Wha us'd to trystes and fairs to driddle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My bonnie lass, I work in brass, A tinker is my station; I've travell'd round all Christian ground In this my occupation. I've ta'en the gold, I've been enroll'd In many a noble squadron; But vain they search'd when off I march'd To go an' clout the caudron." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And by that stowp, my faith an' houpe, An' by that dear Kilbaigie! If e'er ye want, or meet wi' scant, May I ne'er weet my craigie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Three Hunchbacked Fiddlers is illustrated with equal felicity. The famous classical dinners and duel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three Courses and a Dessert, was published at a time when the rage for comic stories was not so great as it since has been, and Messrs. Clark and Cruikshank only sold their hundreds where Messrs. Dickens and Phiz dispose of their thousands. But if our recommendation can in any w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack Sheppard, and the immortal Fagin of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oliver Twist." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sketch-Book is a plate upon the subject, remarkable for fancy and beauty of design; it is called the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gin Juggernaut," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Sketch-Book with not a little amusement, and may gather from it, as we fancy, a good deal of information regarding the character of the individual man, George Cruikshank: what points strike his eye as a painter; what move his anger or admiration as a moralist; what classes he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Headlong Hall, published years ago in the Globe and Traveller, are an excellent comment on several of the cuts from the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sunday in London:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This rich man is invisible In the crowd of his gay society; But the poor man's delight Is a sore in the sight And a stench in the nose of piety." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What IS taxes, Thomas? What is taxes indeed; well may that vast, over-fed, lounging flunky ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Raw Recruit," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "ditto" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as we see them in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sketch-Book," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to the tune of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "British Grenadiers. There they march in state, and a pretty contempt our artist shows for all their gimcracks and trumpery. He has drawn a perfectly English scene--the little blackguard boys are playing pranks round a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Place me amid O'Rourkes, O'Tooles, The ragged royal race of Tara; Or place me where Dick Martin rules The pathless wilds of Connemara." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John Gilpin and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Epping Hunt;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking, as before, That Gilpin rode a race." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Epping Hunt, which we owe to the facetious pen of Mr. Hood, our artist has not been so successful. There is here too much horsemanship and not enough incident for him; but the portrait of Roundings the huntsman is an excellent sketch, and a couple of the designs contain great hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom Thumb and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bombastes Furioso, both of which have appeared with many illustrations by Mr. Cruikshank. The" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peter Schlemihl, with Cruikshank's designs translated into German, and gaining nothing by the change. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kinder und Hans-Maerchen" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life in Paris before mentioned. He has also made designs for Victor Hugo's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hans of Iceland. Strange, wild etchings were those, on a strange, mad subject; not so good in our notion as the designs for the German books, the peculiar humor ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Prince riding on the Fox," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hans in Luck," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Fiddler and his Goose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heads off, are all drawings which, albeit not before us now, nor seen for ten...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Gentleman in Black, which has been illustrated by our artist. A young French gentleman, by name M. Desonge, who, having expended his patrimony in a variety of taverns and gaming-houses, was one day pondering upon the exhausted state of his finances, and utterly at a loss to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Law List," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three Courses" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chawbacon with the shovel, on whose face is written" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zummerzetsheer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come on! says Claret-bottle, a dashing, genteel fellow, with his hat on one ear--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol! Another design shows that Rigdum, if a true, is also a moral and instructive prophet. John Bull is asleep, or rather in a vision; the cunning demon, Speculation, blowing a thousand br...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rigdum Funnidos," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Illustrations of Time, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scraps and Sketches, and the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Illustrations of Phrenology, which are among the most famous of our artist's publications; but it is very difficult to find new terms o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Greenwich Hospital designs, which must not be passed over." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Greenwich Hospital is a hearty, good-natured book, in the Tom Dibdin school, treating of the virtues of British tars, in approved nautical language. They maul Frenchmen and Span...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack Sheppard," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and other phenomena visible on rivers at night are detailed (with not unskilful rhetoric) in order to bring the reader into a proper frame of min...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack Sheppard plates, which are among the most finished and the most successful of Mr. Cruikshank's performances, and say a word or two concerning them. Let us begin with finding fault with No. 1," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Wood offers to adopt little Jack Sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack carving the name on the beam," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Interior of Willesden Church is excellent as a composition, and a piece of artistical workmanship; the groups are well arranged; and the figure of Mrs. Sheppard looking round alarmed, as her son is robbing the dandy Kneebone, is charming, simple, and unaffected. Not so" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Escape from Willesden Cage is excellent; the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Burglary in Wood's house has not less merit;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Sheppard in Bedlam," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack sitting for his picture is a very pleasing group, and savors of the manner of Hogarth, who is introduced in the company. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Murder of Trenchard must be noticed too as remarkable for the effect and terrible vigor which the artist h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oliver Twist," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Tower of London," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Make us laugh or you starve--Give us fresh fun; we have eaten up the old and are hungry." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wouldn't know me, would you? she inquired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say, I scarcely know myself. I used to wear this dress at Pratt's, with white collars and cuffs and--well, I just put it on again. I had it in the bottom of my trunk, and I guessed you'd li...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he exclaimed, looking around him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been up since six, she told him proudly. The flat had been dismantled of its meagre furniture, the rug was rolled up and tied, and a trunk strapped with rope was in the middle of the floor. He...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, she asked him once," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, he answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pleasure?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. It makes me feel as if I were of some use." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Sam, he said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's you, Hodder, he said cheerfully, laying his hand on the rector's arm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was just thinking about you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is Miss Marcy, Mr. Bentley," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I believe it's going to clear off, after all, he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sam predicted it, before breakfast. He pretends to be able to tell by the flowers. After a while I must show you my flowers, Miss Marcy, and what Dalton Street can do by w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Hodder has brought us a new friend and neighbour, Sally,--Miss Kate Marcy. She is to have a room near us, that we may see her often." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Mrs. McQuillen has a room--across the street, you know, Mr. Bentley." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must bring her upstairs, said Sally Grover, quietly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it's only a question of getting back her health, she'd better die, she declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've got but one chance with her, Dr. Giddings, to keep her here. When she finds out she's been to a hospital, that will be the end of it with her kind...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never knew anybody like him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He never says anything about God, and you don't, but when he comes in here he seems like God to me. He's so peaceful,--he makes me peaceful. I remember the minister in Madison,--he was a putty-faced man with indigestion,--and when he prayed he used to close his eyes and try to l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never had it put to me like that, she said, presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never could have known what you meant if I hadn't seen Mr. Bentley." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It means, he replied after a moment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure, she agreed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's what happened to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And unless we see and know some one like Mr. Bentley, he went on,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For God's sake let me go--I can't stand it. Let me go to hell--that's where I belong. What do you bother with me for? I've got a right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll never be able to pull out, I haven't got the strength, she told Hodder, between sobs." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's this, Kate?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take good care of it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you are repaying us, he replied, cutting her short," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added, with a humorous glance at the recto...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Mr. Hodder, he exclaimed cheerfully, with a trace of German accent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had an idea you were somewhere on the cool seas with our friend, Mr. Parr. He spoke, before he left, of inviting you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Modern criticism!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have found me out," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Came into my room, and have a chat," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look there, said the librarian, with a quick wave of his hand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do many persons read them, Mr. Engel?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Read them! cried Mr. Engel, quizzically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We lib...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you really think so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, yes, said Mr. Engel, when he had recovered from his astonishment." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure of it. I think clergymen especially--if you will pardon me --are apt to forget that thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, replied Mr. Engel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad to hear you say that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, said Hodder, sitting down," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've learned, as you have, by experience. Only my experience...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will pardon me! he said penitently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I forget myself. I did not mean all clergymen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have never heard it put so well, Holder declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what is the result, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The librarian thrust a yellow hand towards the pile of books." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The new wine has burst the old skin and is running all over the world. Ah, my friend, if you co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is curious that I should have met you this morning, Mr. Engel, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expressed surprise when you declared this was a religious age, because you corroborated something I had felt, but of which I had no sufficient proof. I felt th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And as for your other authority, your ordinary man, when he reads modern philosophy, says to himself, this does not conflict with science? But he gets no hint, when he goes to most churches, that there is, between the two, no real quarrel, and he turns away in despair. He may ac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will have opposition, my friend. They will fight you--some persons we know. They do not wish--what you and I desire. But you will not surrender--I knew it. Mr. Engel broke off abruptly, and rang a bell on his desk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will make out f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "so to speak, and he had heard them mentioned at dinner parties by his more intellectual parishioners, such as Mrs. Constable and Martha Preston. Now he was able to smile at his former attitude toward these moderns, whose perusal he had deprecated as treason to the saints! And he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is life worth living?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now-what do I mean by I trusting? Is the word to carry with it license to define in detail an invisible world, and to authorize and excommunicate those whose trust is different? . . Our faculties of belief were not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For your cause can only be revealed to you through some presence that first teaches you to love the unity of the spiritual life. . . You must find it in human shape." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The will of the spiritual world, the divine will, revealed in man." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid, he said, smiling," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reflection seems to be a circular process with me, she answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never get anywhere--like you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Like me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Like you, yes, she said, continuing to examine him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've changed remarkably." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you seem happier, you look happier. It isn't only that, I can't explain how you impress me. It struck me wh...