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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venio nunc ad voluptates agricolarum, quibus ego incredibiliter delector: quae nec ulla impediuntur senectute, et mihi ad sapientis vitam proxime videntur accedere." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't want to take up your ground with potatoes, the neighbors said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(the very thing I wanted to avoid doing is buying things)." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What you want is the perishable things that you cannot get ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not going to waste your ground on muskmelons? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They rarely ripen in this climate thoroughly, before frost. He had tried for years without luck. I resolved to not go into such a foolish experiment. But, the next day, ano...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eternal gardening is the price of liberty," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jardin des Plantes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he'd be -----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "a fat, ground-clinging, spreading, greasy thing, and the most propagatious (it is not my fault if the word is not in the dictionary) plant I know. I saw a Chinaman, who came over with a returned missionary, and pretended to be converted, boil a lot of it in a pot, stir in eggs, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Iliad," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You need not teach your grandmother to suck eggs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of all the forms which" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He had no copy-book, which, dying, he was sorry he had blotted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Welcome to the Nation's Gardener;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Champion of England. As quick as a flash he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why don't you call them 'The Reverdy Johnson'?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which must have grown up since Saturday night. It was most fortunate; for it led his Excellency to speak of the Chinese problem. He said he had been struck with one, coupling of the Chinese and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in one of my agricultural papers; and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lothair, from which I got my ideas of landscape gardening; and that I had worked the garden entirely according to my own notions, except that I had borne in mind his injunction," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--The President stopped me abruptly, and said it was unnec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "would have strangled the strawberry; the upright corn, which has now ears to hear the guilty beating of the hearts of the children who steal the raspberries, would have been dragged to the earth by the wandering bean; the snake-grass would have left no place for the potatoes und...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't catch me with any such double device." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I thank you, I say carelessly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am raising my own this year. Whereas I have been wont to remark," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your vegetables look a little wilted this weather, I now say," }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Polly, do you know who planted that squash, or those squashes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "James, I suppose." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, yes, perhaps James did plant them, to a certain extent. But who hoed them?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will stand the drought better, says Mr. Greeley," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have corn in my garden, ten and twelve feet high, strong and lusty, standing the drought like a grenadier; and it is hilled. In advising this radical change, Mr. Greeley evidently ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in it, let it alone. See if it is a soil that requires much hoeing, and how fine it will get if there is no rain for two months. But when you come to fertilizing, if I understand the agricultural authorities, you open a pit that will ultimately swallow you up, --farm and all. It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, boss;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of heaven," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The wonder was not yet quite gone From that still look of hers," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And now She spoke through the still weather." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have no business here: what are you after?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Looking for a lost hen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't do it: there ain't no notice up about trespassing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But these are private grounds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Private h---!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I could n't hold an apron better than that!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is a rotation of crops, is n't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes: I have rotated the gone-to-seed lettuce off, and expect to rotate the turnips in; it is a political...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The ground was carpeted with it. I should think that this was the tenth crop of the season; and it was as good as the first. I see no reason why our northern soil is not as prolific as that of the tropics, and will not produce as many crops in the year. The mistake we make is in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There ain't no dog in the United States, says the guide, at the top of his voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wall, there's one thing that beats me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's 'pusley'!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where it comes from I don't know, nor what to do with it. It's in my garden; an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Early Rose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is there any taste in the white of an egg?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How sweet!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What nice ones!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Arabian Nights," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or their" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thursdays." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! I see you have none of this, and of that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you would call at Bobbin's, and match that skein of worsted for me, when you are in town. Time was, I used to accept such a commission with alacrity and self-confidence. I went to Bobbin's, and asked one of his young men, with easy indifference, to give me some of that. T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mister, I say, can you tell me where I can find some walnuts?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Uncle Tom's Cabin, and, upon being assured that it was, bad decided to dwell there. This is, of course, fanciful, for his antecedents were wholly unknown, but in his time he could hardly have been in any household where he would not have heard" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the concert would explode, and Calvin would quietly come in and resume his seat on the hearth. There was no trace of anger in his manner, but he would n't have any of that about the house. He had the rare virtue of magnanimity. Although he had fixed notions about his own rig...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us respect our personality, and not make a 'mess' of friendship. He saw, with Emerson, the risk of degrading it to trivial conveniency." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why insist on rash personal relations with your friend?" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They say that she says that he says that he wouldn't take a hundred dollars for him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand it, old fellow, but it's no use." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How natural he looks!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "you can substitute" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Calvin's Institutes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is the Rape of the Sardines! What a cheerful world it would be if everybody was as successful as that man! While I am reading my book by the fire, and taking an active part in important transactions that may be a good deal better than real, let me be thankful that a great m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, gallants, attend and list a friend Thrill forth harmonious ditty; While I shall tell what late befell At Philadelphia city." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "John, says the mother," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll burn your head to a crisp in th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am interested in; he has formed very different opinions from mine concerning a hundred men and women of the present day; we used to eat from one dish; we could n't now find anything in common in a dozen; his prejudices (as we call our opinions) are most extraordinary, and not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you smoke?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I have reformed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, of course." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fact is, that when we consider the correlation of forces, the apparent sympathy of spirit m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and is met by the response of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and rejoins with the perfectly conclusive" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "one only needs to know how to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be a merciful God who can forgive a smell like that!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bwavo" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I declare!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "VISION OF SIN" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "used instead of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which I should have preferred. I saw myself" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, old Starr's gone up. Sudden, was n't it? He was a first-rate fellow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, queer about some things; but he had some mighty good streaks," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be hanged if it is n't lonesome without old Starr. Did you cut? I should like to see him lounge in now with his pipe, and with feet on the mantel-piece proceed to expound on the duplex functions of the soul." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There--misdeal, said his vis...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(to use a vulgarism which I dislike) when he had his head, and on this occasion he entered into the matter with the zeal of a true friend, and a young man who never expected to have another occasion to sing a public" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In Memoriam." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is your name? asked he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give me, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you been accustomed, he said, after a time, rather sadly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and as to the last, an occasional" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you ever been dissipated, living riotously and keeping late hours?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, continued he, in tones still more serious," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don Giovanni." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rise, he cried;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your examination is satisfactory, he informed me, after a pause;" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop! one moment, exclaimed St. Peter, laying his hand on my shoulder;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have one more question to ask you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Young man, did you ever use tobacco?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For using tobacco," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ho! shouted he in a jolly manner, peculiar to devils," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The north wind is full of courage, and puts the stamina of endurance into a man, and it probably would into a woman too if there were a series of resolutions passed to that effect. The west wind is hopeful; it has promise and adventure in it, and is, except to Atlantic voyagers ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out of a drifting southern cloud My soul heard the night-bird cry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "although I did not understand it, especially what the night-bird was; and I am afraid I hurt the Young Lady's feelings by asking her if she meant Herbert by the" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "several times, and is one of the Vice-Presidents; and this family honor makes me feel almost as if I were a president of something myself. These little distinctions are among the sweetest things in life, and to see one's name officially printed stimulates his charity, and is alm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Punish 'em in love! It sounded as if he had said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shoot 'em on the spot!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "has a great effect upon country folk especially; and it is a more wholesome excitement than that caused by a great conflagration. The abatement of a snow-storm that grows to exceptional magnitude is regretted, for there is always the half-hope that this will be, since it has gon...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest, begins Herbert, in a burst of originality, felicitously selecting a word whose exclusiveness shuts out all the world but one, and which is a whole letter, poem, confession, and creed in one breath. What a weight of meaning it has to carry! There may be beauty and wit an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Science of Religion." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Charley." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--does not bear me out in saying that it was a pleasant picture. I should like to believe that Jehoiakiin--for that was the singular name of the gentleman who sat by his hearthstone--had just received the Memphis" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Palimpsest, fifteen day...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scribner's Monthly" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you so!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Vision of Sir Launfal" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weekly Tribune," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did ye ever see Horace?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cannot one easier change his creed than his pew?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord is in his holy temple, and has passed on to say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the building is repeating" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord is in his holy temple from half a dozen different angles and altitudes, rolling it and growling it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "appearance which seemed more than anything else to impress Mr. Hawthorne in the cathedral at Amiens. I fancy that for genuine high-shoulderness we are not exceeded by any church in the city. Our chapel in the rear is as Gothic as the rest of it, --a beautiful little edifice. The...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--what is sometimes called an" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Coeur de Lion Plantagenet in the mutton-chop whiskers and the plain gray suit." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "than" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ours or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rip Van Winkle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "where all the guests are clothed in a manner to which they are unaccustomed, dressed into a condition of vivid self-consciousness. The same people, who know each other perfectly well, will enjoy themselves together without restraint in their ordinary apparel. But nothing can be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There'sa-good-time-com-ing-boys (nothing offensive is intended by boys," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what a brightening up of their faces there is when they say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "not doubting for a moment that" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Myth of the Garden." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "who, being a superintendent of any sort, did not superintend with a view to getting it. But" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "have become so common that a modest man ought really to be afraid to do his simple duty, for fear his motives will be misconstrued. Yet there ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In time it may be a distinction not to belong to it, and it may come to be thought more blessed to give than to receive. For it must have been remarked that it is not always to the cleverest and the most amiable and modest man that the deputation comes with the inevitable ice-pi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "whom you constantly meet and pass without a sign of recognition, many of whom are no doubt your long-lost brothers and sisters. You can see that they also have their worlds and their interests, and they probably know a great many" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she was a Bogardus. And when we read that she has gone on a mission and has died, distinguishing herself by some extraordinary devotion to the heathen at Ujiji, we think it sufficient to say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, her mother married into the Smith...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "within a few years. He was genuinely pleased at his relation's good luck, and pointed him out to me with some pride. But he had no envy of him, and he evinced no desire to imitate him. I inferred from all his conversation about" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Napoleon is gettin' on't, ain't he?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You would say he was not a man who would ever catch anything, not even an epidemic; but he was a person whom diseases would be likely to overtake, even the slowest of slow fevers. And he was n't a man to shake off anything. And yet sickness seemed to trouble him no more than pov...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, my son, rather behave in such a manner that all fathers shall wish their sons had red hair." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that we who have sat by this hearthstone before should all be together on Christmas eve. There was a splendid backlog of hickory just beginning to burn with a glow that promised to grow more fiery till long past midnight, which would have needed no apology in a loggers' camp,--n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Uncle in India. The words as I write them convey no idea of the tone in which they fall upon my ears. I think it is the only fault of that estimable woman, that she has an" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and does not let him quietly remain there. I feel quite sure ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or a white cow, which would give golden milk, that would make butter worth seventy-five cents a pound," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sleep?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not in the least, I answered brightly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it is," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I have heard Polly speak of you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes I've come over to O Lord,--quick, Jamsetzee, lift up that foot, --take care. There, Mr. Trimings, if that's your name, get me a glass ...