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37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Politeness of Mr. Smith --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Favoured by Mr. Jones --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honoured by Mr. Brown."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excellency"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Professor"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yesterday I received a letter from sister Mary, which was the first letter I have received from sister since she left. The sentence should be,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yesterday I received a letter from my sister Mary, the first since she left us."
},
{
... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Misses Brown, --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Misses Smith. Those who _really_ are so, write"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Miss Browns --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Miss Smiths --the plural being always on the substant... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arabella did not cure herself of this fault; but when she grew up, and became an authoress, she never marked her quotations."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A lady complained to us that an acquaintance of hers, about to leave town, had left a card for her with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Phebe Ann! what hives she has!"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "has a character for generosity,) for they know that he will reward them by a handsome present of some bijou of real value. And yet they may be assured that the kind old gentleman (whom"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and scarcely permitting you to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a fine day,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every American is to be supposed capable of conversing on miscellaneous subjects; and he considers it no compliment to be treated as if he knew nothing but what the Scotch call his"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a thing never happened to _me_."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now really _I_ never experienced any of these discomforts, much as I have traversed the continent. None of these inconveniences ever come in my way."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "St. Patrick for Ireland, against St. George for England."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir, _I_ was born in Scotland."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, sir, said the cynic calmly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not see why so s... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "there is one infallible rule by which the falsehood of these pretensions may be detected. And that is in the misuse of the letter H, putting it where it should not be, and omitting it where it should. This unaccountable practice prevails, more or less, in all parts of England, b... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An orse af a day, --or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A horse half a day. The second line means"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Taking of him home."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard it before."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know one woman by these presents. He was interrupted, and asked why he changed the words, which were in the usual form,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Know all men by these presents."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By their fruits ye shall know them."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He can't be wrong whose life is in the right; and try to act up to the Divine command of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a time for all things."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or the contrary. But do not positively and dogmatically assert that it _is_ good, or that it _is_ bad. The person with whom you are talking is, in all probability, a far more competent judge than yourself; therefore, listen atten... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had a hard battle to fight in your behalf last evening at Mrs. Morley's. Miss Jewson, whom you believe to be one of your best friends, said some very severe things about you, which, to my surprise, were echoed by Miss Warden, who said she knew them to be true. But I contradict... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it my duty to tell how Miss Jackson and Mrs. Wilson talk about you, for it is right that you should know your friends from your enemies."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a plain-spoken woman, and consider it right, for your own sake, to inform you that since your return from Europe, you talk quite too much of your travels."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! but there should be moderation in all things. To be candid--your friend M... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it is a fair question?"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not be offended at what I am going to say,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could not refrain, said the officer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a high temper, your majesty, and I cannot avoid showing it, when I see a man looking sternly at me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you can, replied the king."
},
{
... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brevity is the soul of wit, and wit is the soul of anecdote. And where wit is wanting, humour is an excellent substitute. Every body likes to laugh, or ought to. Yet there is a time for all things; and after listening to a serious or interesting incident well related, it is exce... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that they enjoy a happy exemption from"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The boy is the very image of his father. If the mother is a vain woman, she would much rather hear that all the children are the very image of herself. Refrain from praising too much the children of another family, particularly if the two sets of children are cousins. It is ofte... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This silk of yours is very suitable for an elderly person --or--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you take this chair?--an old lady like you will find it very comfortable --or--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, baby--is not that grandma? --or--"
... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He said he couldn't see the town, There were so many houses."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hadn't ought, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shouldn't ought --or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It warn't, instead of"
},
{
"from": "... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Emptyings is not a good name for yeast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Up chamber, up garret, down cellar, are all wrong. Why not say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "&c.? Why should a mirthful fit of laughter be called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the Yankees are"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the English are quite"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The English are"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "get rid of the custom as soon as you can. Also, give up saying"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good woman, said the stranger,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _will_ whip him, because he is so ugly. The Englishman walked on; but put down in his journal that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should admire to read that book,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should admire to hear that song,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should admire to see the president. Substitute,"
},
{
"from": "hu... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I loves beet-root."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(stoep,) and do not talk of going out on the stoop, or sitting in the stoop. When a load of wood or coal is put down at your door, say not that it is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never speak of visitin... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When submitting to do a thing unwillingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sometimes"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She talked of a certain great vocalist"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She believed it very smart and piquant to use these vile... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you _loan_ it to me? The word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is, by good talkers, and good writers, never used but as a substantive: notwithstanding that Johnson gives it as a verb also, but only on one obscure authority--and Johnson is not now regarded as infal... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To make assurance doubly sure,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To go a-borrowing is to go a-sorrowing."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if still urged, persist in declining steadily; for it is a liberty you have no right to take with any article belonging to another. Even if the owner is your sister, you should lend nothing of hers without first obtaining her permission. Whatever you borrow yourself, should ... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queen Victoria is the very image of Sarah Smith;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prince Albert an exact likeness of Dick Brown;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "&c. &c. To those"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "there is little use in showing or e... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or unless she informs you that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--you have no right to suppose the offence premeditated, and therefore you should restrain your temper, and calmly endeavour to convince her that she is wrong; or else acknowledge that she is right. She ou... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wise will let their anger cool, At least before 'tis night; But in the bosom of a fool, It burns till morning light."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blessed are the peacemakers, --and a mutual friend, if well-disposed toward both opponents, generally has it in her power to effect a reconciliation, by repeating, kindly, any favourable remark she may chance to have heard one of the offended parties make on the other. In truth,... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But as to officers,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curiosity is not the right word. It is polite to imply that,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truth is stranger than fiction. The French say--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Le vrai n'est pas toujours le plus vraisemblable, --which, literally translated, means that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truth is not always the most truth-like. Also, be ... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How much did you get for that? and how much are you to have for this? And how much do you make in the course of a year? And how much a page do you get? And how many pages can you write in a day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, really--you must be coining money. I... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--or entreat her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours, which shou... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, literary slatterns are not more frequent than slatterns who are not literary. It is true that women of enlarged minds, and really good taste, do not think it necessary to follow closely all the changes and follies of fashion, and to wear things that are inconvenient, uncomf... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any thing new in the literary world? is a question by which some people always commence conversation with an author. Why should it be supposed that they always"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Original Poems for Children, that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--placing them side by side, or _vis-à-vis_, and saying something about,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Greek meets Greek,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll sit by _you_... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is not correctly applied to a female, unless she has successfully cultivated what is understood to be the learning of colleges--for instance, the dead languages, &c. Unfortunately, the term is now seldom used but in derision, and to denote a woman whose studies have been entirel... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of a person who has little or no leisure. Yet in the intervals of toiling for herself, she is expected to toil for some one else; probably for a stranger whom she does not know, in whom she can take no interest, and who has evidently"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "who are expected, in many instances, not only to revise the manuscript, but immediately to find a purchaser for it--a purchaser of high rank among publishers--one who will bring it out handsomely, ensure it an immense circulation, pay promptly, and pay as much as is given to the... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on weak, worn-out, common-place subjects, done into feeble, halting, ill-rhyming verses, such as few read, and none remember. Or the aspirant after fame, may have chosen the easier path of prose, and produced a fiction without fancy, a novel without novelty,"
},
{
"from"... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rejected Addresses,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hot buttered beans,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blind-man's bluff,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "adding,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I try to be polite."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any thing for the sake of peace,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is always a table purposely for those children whose parents pay half-price for them; and at which the housekeeper presides. However good this table may be, and though the pies and puddings may be excellent, the mothers are frequently dissatisfied with the absence of ice-c... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet worldly is that heart at best, Which beats beneath a broider'd veil; And she who comes in glittering vest To mourn her frailty--still is frail."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By their fruits ye shall know them."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dancing"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If she does not feel already like an old married woman?"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said the lady,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know Bogle can't come, answered Carroll;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shepherd, then? said the lady;"
},
... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a way they have."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then, Annette, adds the good old dame,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary Jones sings that delightfully! --or--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How charmingly Susan Smith gives us that ballad!"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to vary the amusements of the evening by introducing some of the numerous plays or games which are always the delight of fine children, and which, by way of variety, frequently afford much diversion to adults. It is not necessary that all these plays should become"
},
{
... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bold Dragoon at Palo Alto."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In what manner did Captain May cheat the Mexicans?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He charged them with a troop of horse which they never got."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My heart, like a candle of four to the pound, Consumes all the day, and no comfort is found."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Being at home, and desirous that my friends shall share as much as possible in the enjoyments of the evening, I would rather refrain from dancing myself. Let me present you to Miss Lindley, or to Miss Darwood; you will find either of these young ladies a delightful partner."
}... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let all"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She should never consent to any such exhibition of her unhappy figure. She will only be asked out of mere compassion, or from some interested and unworthy motive. We are asked--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why s... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is now found that if the articles are properly arranged, and of the proper sort, the ladies can much more conveniently help themselves, and with less risk of staining or greasing their dresses. Unless the gentleman was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and stereotype... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It made me so mad --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was quite mad at her,"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luckily, these"
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which in fact, is now nearly obsolete in familiar conversation. In the old French tragedies the lovers addressed their mistresses as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But then the stage Alexander wore a powdered wig, and a... |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No lights of age adorn them."
}
] |
37988 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "original reads"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blind-man's bluff; original reads"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "XXIV. Corrected to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "XXV."
}
] |
309181 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! Wait!"
}
] |
511035 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's this: that you've already made up your mind to keep me here."
}
] |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear me, and may God preserve you! Hasten back and leave everything; save yourselves from sudden death, for this that ye think is an island is not such. It is a mighty fish lying entranced in sleep on the surface of the sea since times of old, and trees have grown upon it; but y... |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come with me! he led me into his cave and set food before me. I ate until I was satisfied; and, being at my ease, I repeated my story more minutely, and he wondered thereat. Then I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast the truth of my adventures upon the sea... |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Allah! my son, of a truth thou art favoured by fate; for how else could'st thou escape so great a peril? Praise God for thy deliverance!"
}
] |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All, O my master, he replied;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sayest thou so? I cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me, I pray thee, the name of the owner of these goods. And he replied,"
},
{
"f... |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What if I escaped from dangers in the past when all seemed lost--it still remains that here at least there is no escape."
}
] |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Allah! no marvel is past belief, for here is the verification."
}
] |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curse not fate, nor fear me, for I am of thy kind, and I hear with me an abundance of these stones the loss of which thou lamentest; and they are of the largest that a man can carry upborne by a vulture's wings. Of these will I give unto thee; therefore forget thy fear and bury ... |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God preserve us! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The gale hath driven us to an evil fate. See! yonder is the Mountain of Apes! None hath ever come near it and escaped."
}
] |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Allah! by Allah! let us kill him! and he proposed a plan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Listen, O my brothers! I said on hearing this;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They answered me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou art right!"
}
] |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you not hear me? _I_ am Sindbad the Sailor, and these are my goods!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hear me, ye doubters! he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I related this very thing to you, you believed me not; but see--this is the man I sp... |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a tribe of the Magi and their King is a ghoul!"
}
] |
47285 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my son, seeing thou hast now become as one of us and we cannot part with thee, I desire that thou give ear to a matter which I have planned and which will bind thee more closely to us. And I answered him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For thy great kindness to me,... |
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