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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Respectable man--the smooth, smiling villain whom all the City honours, whose very trade is lies and murder; who buys his daily bread with the blood and tears of men." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder that the women can keep their patience with the ninny. If Miss Clara Pugsley were to use her atrophied brain for five minutes, she would know that no woman with a husband and five children to feed and clothe, and a rent of eighteenpence a week to pay, can save a farthin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Send a philosopher to London, but no poet, says Heine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Everywhere we are stared down on by wealth and Respectability, while, crammed away in retired lanes and damp alleys, poverty dwells, wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "upon the Pugsley lines, I would do all I could to encourage the youngster. He would earn success so easily that he would not care a rap for it. I would go, unbeknown to him, and scatter pins on the ground in front of the office where he intended to apply for a clerkship, so that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Ashbourne Crescent there is neither dissent nor Radicalism, but general aversion to all considerations which might disturb belief in all the routine of existence, in all its temporal and spiritual aspects, as it had come amongst them. The fathers and the brothers go to the Ci...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the afternoon promenade are mostly the wives and daughters of Villadom. They do not know how largely responsible they are for that nocturnal orgy of the streets when they are snug in their luxurious drawing-rooms. It is the fetish-worship of Respectability that makes thousand...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Men, and still more women, who lift themselves above the ordinary standard by their philosophical tastes and speculations, may indeed be accounted fortunate if they escape calumny or obloquy from general society." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mankind is an ass, who ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Douglas, was persecuted and turned out of the ministry by Scotch Respectables for writing a play to amuse and instruct his fellow men; and Dr. Alexander Carlyle was threatened with a prosecution for standing by Home, his friend. Religious Respectability persecuted the devout Han...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can bear it no longer, cries Thackeray," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carlyle calls England" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and even to go to the extreme of asserting that we could well dispense with much of it. The latter-day Anglo-Saxon, who thinks without thought, has for himself a very c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "slowly and painfully must we climb the stages till we cease to obey the blind dictates of instinctive impulse and to base our codes on the reigning opinions of the irrational mass. It is hardly needful to reiterate even one of the preliminary conclusions of all philosophers and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he is no less absurd than those who fawn around the lackeys of a court. Our noble lords are not of one type, as our common people are not of one cast, though in many rude examples of nobility we can trace the basic elements of ruffianism, and see the bestial fruits thereof. What...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These be the men we are told to look up to, said a tattered plebeian, whose eyes had been blasted by the hunting magistrate who was riding on other men's land. But that we do" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "our rich, idle folk with an avid awe is undoubted. Few person...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fop of Charles's time, says Leslie, in Mr. Mallock's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "New Republic," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life without industry is guilt; industry without art is brutality. Now, in the push and drive of industry at the close of this century it is as hard for myriads to keep the soul alive, as it is for many thousands to find food for the body. The trader who makes Mammon his idol, w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The superior worth of simplicity of life, the enervating and demoralising effects of the trammels and hypocrisies of artificial society, are ideas which have never been entirely absent from cultivated minds since Rousseau wrote; and they will in time produce their due effect, th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "novels. Again, we should rejoice to learn that a factory worker, who has taught himself to read at the age of forty, is studying Mr. Spencer's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "First Principles." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps so; but for the nonce,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With sallow faces and twisted bodies, and one of their shoulders a little forced up by perpetual bending at work over a table ... they all belonged to the army of poor threadbare devils who vegetate frugally in a mean little plaster-house, with a flower bed for a garden." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our society, says M. Taine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Respect is often paid in proportion as it is claimed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pericles should be taught to boys:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This diabolical invention of gentility," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Since every Jack became a gentleman, there's many a gentle person made a Jack," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Foundations of Belief." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Social Evolution or in Drummond's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ascent of Man, good as those simple souls are, that will make the dominant public opinion of the next half century. Nor are the rank-and-file of the clergy--of all denominations--in many instances quali...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Social Evolution ; the second of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Ascent of Man ; the third, of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Foundations of Belief. In completely discrediting the two first of these three works, Mr. Cecil's task has been easy, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ascent of Man; and it is in his criticism of this that Mr. Cecil shows himself at his best. Had he only been less destitute of the rudiments of good behaviour and good feeling, we should have had little but commendation to bestow on the manner in which he exposes Mr. Drummond's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Language of this kind is distinctly provocative, but it may be found bracing enough to the energetic rejector of scientific compromise. Whatever" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pseudo-Philosophy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meaning what?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, if we only had a little child," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Queen, be cheerful, for the dearest wish of your heart will be granted you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look behind you, croaked the voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And do you tell me, Master Frog, said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is to have a little small child of your own," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, the Frog went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never was there such a beautiful child," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall her name be?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She shall be called Briar-Rose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be merry, my lords and ladies, cried the voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Laugh while you may, but remember that tears may follow laughter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's one, said she, with a harsh laugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am sure you are very welcome." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it so, indeed? said the thirteenth fairy." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Queen, said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will begin. My gift to the Princess Briar-Rose is the gift of Beauty. She shall have eyes like stars, and hair as bright as the sunshine of the spring day on which she was born, and cheeks as fresh and fair as the pet...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you all finished? said she." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hear, then, my wish. On the day when she reaches her fifteenth birthday, the Princess shall prick her finger with the spindle of a spinning-wheel, and shall immediately die!" }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay your hand, O King, lest even worse befall. No mortal may strike at a fairy and go unpunished. And, for the rest, take comfort, for your daughter shall not die!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My gift is still to come, she continued." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have, answered the venerable wizard." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My arts have not failed me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, of course! said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How is it that I did not myself think of such a simple solution? It seems to me, Wizard, that you have easily earned your thousand crowns!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Majesty, the wizard mad...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bring out your spinning-wheels. Bring out your spinning-wheels!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've had my wheel for twenty years, said one woman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Five silver crowns my wheel cost my good man last Candlemass, said another," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is a wheel if the burning of it saves our little Princess?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, come, my love, said the King," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How can I help thinking about it? the Queen answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have not been able to get it out of my mind for fifteen years, and now that the day has come I am a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-morrow, Motherkin, said the Princess." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you doing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am spinning, my pretty child," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spinning? asked the Princess." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, said a third." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That castle is the home of a giant, and all the people in these parts are very much afraid of him, so I have been told, because he steals their cattle and their crops, and even carries off their children to be his ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have I come so far to turn back now? he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These others who have died were brave men, and though they failed, with a courage as great as theirs I may succeed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it you, my Prince? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How long you have kept me waiting!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take that, cried the cook, giving the scullion the clout she had promised a hundred years before." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take that for a lazy knave." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Goodness, yawned the maid who had been plucking the black hen;" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear me! said the servant who was washing the dishes;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do believe I have been to sleep with this crock in my hand. It's a mercy I didn't let it fall!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was the heat, they all said to each other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The sun is very hot for this time of year." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your Majesty was saying . . . ?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was saying . . . said the King." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What was I saying? And he stretched out his arms and yawned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I crave your pardon, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How great their courage was, she sighed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, if only I could bring them back to life." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bless my soul! bless my soul!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is wondrous gentle with the sick, Benedict--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I Am the Master's!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Alden" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Labbayk!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sons of the Prophet, Slay!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where There Is None but Allah." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thálassa! Thálassa!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Business! he growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The business could have gone on without me! he added, bitterly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And, after all, what's any business, compared to _life_?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A lit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rrisa!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bring the evening food and drink," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, Rrisa, he commanded, still speaking in Arabic," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How dost thou name that place, Rrisa?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot say, Master," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master, I cannot say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thou knowest the name of the place where thou wast born?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A tent, a hut? A village, a town, a city?" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou wilt not say they lie, son of Islam, eh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not of choice, perhaps, _M'almé_, the Mussulman replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But if the camel hath not drunk of the waters of the oasis, how can he know that they be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not all men, true, the Master resumed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Turks--I know they enter, though hated. But have no other foreign men ever seen the interior?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course. But I am speaking now of men of the _Nasara...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is my will that thou speak to me and declare this thing, Rrisa, said he, decisively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say, thou, hath no man of the _Nasara_ faith ever penetrated as far as to the place of thy birth?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your God is not my God, Master, said he, impersonally." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, the God of your people is not the God of mine. We have our own; and the land is ours, too. None of the _Nasara_ may come thither, and live. Three came, that I have heard of, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's where it is, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not five miles from here! It's there, and I've got to have it. There--a thing that can't be bought! There--a thing that must be mine!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Chicago mail-plane, just getting in, he commented." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In half an hour, the Paris plane starts from the Cortlandt Street aero-tower. And beyond Paris lies Constantinople; and beyond that, Arabia--the East! Men are going out that way, to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By Allah! This sort of thing's not going to go on any longer! Not if I die stopping it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, hello! called he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That you, Bohannan?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sounded the answer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I know who _you_ are. There's only one voice like yours in New York....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's a concession, isn't it? The sealed gates that no one else ever passes, at night, are opened to you. It's very important. Be here in fifteen minutes you say? First-rate! Don't fail me. Good-bye!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By Allah! he exclaimed, new notes in his voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What if--what if it _could_ be, after all?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "M.M., a Médaille Militaire. A third showed him the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D.F.C.," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After these, he mused," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've been through some wonderful times together, old pal, you and I, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We thought it was all over, didn't we, for a while? But it's not! Life's not done, yet. It's maybe just beginning! We're going out on the long trek, _again_!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bohannan! God, but I'm glad to see you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what's doing now? demanded he, fixing blue eyes on his host. He produced a cigarette and lighted it, inhaled smoke deeply and blew a thin gray cloud toward the ceiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something big, eh? by the way you routed me out of a poker-ga...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Duel? Lord's sake, man! With whom?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With Fate. Now, listen! The Master's tones became more animated. A little of the inward fires had begun to burn through his self-restraint." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen to me, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Major Bohannan and I have chosen you and have invited you here because we believe every man in this room is precisely the kind of man I have been defining. We believe you are like ourselves, dying of boredom, eager for adventure; and willing to undergo military discipline, swear...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did not bring you up, sir, the Arab was saying, in broken English." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You cannot come in! How did you get here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not in the habit of giving explanations to subordinates, or of bandying word...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your name, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain Alfred Alden, of the R.A.F." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Royal Air Force man, eh? Are you prepared to prove that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did you come here? It's obvious my man didn't bring you up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came in my own plane, sir, the stranger answered, in a dead hush of stillness." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It just now landed on the roof of this buildin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does all this mean, sir? demanded the Master, sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why the mask?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is that a necessary question, sir? replied the aviator, while a buzz of curiosity and suspicion rose." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't tolerate what disgusts, even if its qualities be excellent. In exposing myself to you, sir, I should certainly be insuring my rejection. But what you cannot see, what you can only imagine, will not make you refuse me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it so ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unmasked, I bear no resemblance whatever to a man, but rather to some ghastly, drug-inspired dream or nightmare of an Oriental Dante. The fact that I have sacrificed my human appearance in the Great Cause cannot overcome the shrinking aversion that normal men would feel, if they...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In case of my death, the authority falls on Major Bohannan. He is today the only man who knows my plans, and with whom I have had any discussion. If we both are killed, then you can elect your own leader. But so long as either of us lives, you have no authority and no redress. I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall examine his credentials. If he turns out to be a spy--well, life will be short, for him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are now one of us, sir. You become the thirtieth member of a little group of as brave men, as daring and determined fighters as can be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Commissary will be furnished. Each man is to wear his campaign equipment--his uniform and such kit as he can store in a rucksack. Bring small-arms and ammunition. In addition, I will furnish bombing material and six Lewis guns, with ammunition, also other materials of which I sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come forward now, as I call your names, and receive what I shall give you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adams--Auchincloss--Brodeur--Cracowicz--Daimamoto--Emilio--Frazier--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you no orders for me, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "None, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All the others--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are different. The Master set hands on his hips, and coldly studied this strange fig...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A on your map. Put on rucksack and discard suit-case, which, of course, is to have no identifying marks. Proceed along path to point" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even now, as your partner in this enterprise--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My lieutenant," }, { "from": "human", "value": "As second in command, amended Bohannan, irritably," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not wholly convinced this is th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Again, news of any such operations would have got out. My plans would possibly have been checkmated. In the third place, what you propose would have been tame sport, indeed, as a beginning! Three excellent reasons, my dear Major, why this is positively the only way." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three quarters speed," } ]