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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have seen it, I have seen it! Those who have been starved in life, levy a sort of tax on the plenty of others, in the instinctive effort to replenish their own empty treasure-house. Only that is impossible. One can gain no riches in that fashion. One can only reduce one's vict...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I chafe against these situations! cried Valeria." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am so unused, in my own life, to such tethers and limitations. They would drive me crazy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hadria exclaimed, with an amused smile," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You won't give up your music, Hadria," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a forlorn sort of pursuit, Hadria answered, with a whimsical smile," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And you will not give up hope?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hope?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear I shall have to be going back," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I ought really to be going," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will come back and see us at Craddock Dene soon after you return, won't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I will. And I hope that meanwhile, you will set to work to get strong and well. All your leisure ought to be devoted to that object, for the pres...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear, dear, she do take on about that child! Dodge used to say, as she passed up the street of Craddock. And Mrs. Gullick, good soul, would shake her head and express her sympathy, in spite of not" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "with Mrs. Temperley's" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You and Professor Fortescue, she said, in closing her letter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can see you are very happy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed I ought to be. Life is gloriously worth living, when it is lived in the presence of good and generous souls." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish _I_ had married," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My love for him, said Valeria," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you remember our famous discussion on Emerson in the garret?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do I? It is one of the episodes of our youth that stands out most distinctly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And how about Emerson's doctrine? _Are_ we the ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hadria was always very sweet, of course, said Henriette," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that the companionship of Lady Engleton has been of great service to Hadria," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Unquestionably, assented Henriette." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder what is the secret of success, Hadria?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speaking generally, I should say to have a petty aim." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then if one succeeds after a long struggle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Futile? said Lady Engleton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think women are generally fools, _entre nous_; that is why they so often fill their lives with sound and fury, accomplishing nothing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can understand so well ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed, the only tie that we respect is that of our love and faith. If that failed, we should scorn to hold one another in unwilling bondage. We are not entirely without self-respect." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm real glad, mum, that I be, said Dodge," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; I don't think it is all for the best, said Hadria." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think, as far as my influence goes, it is all for the worst. What fatal argument my life will give to those who are seeking reasons to hold our sex in the old bondage! My struggle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why ma'am, I thought you was never coming again to play on the piano; I _have_ missed it, that I have. It makes the old place seem that cheerful--I can almost fancy it's my poor young mistress come back again. She used to sit and play on that piano, by the hour together." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good heavens! are _all_ doors going to be shut against me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't, I _can't_ endure it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all absurd, all futile! (so moved the procession of the thoughts);" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But they break my heart, little singer, they break my heart!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it all, I know it all, and my heart is broken--and it is my own fault--and it does not matter--the world is full of broken hearts--and it does not matter, it does not m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very lovely, it is very lovely--the world is a miracle, but it is all like a taunt, it is like an insult, this glory of the world. I am born a woman, and to be born a woman is to be exquisitely sensitive to insult and to live under it always, always. I wish that I were as ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you do not understand, you do not understand, little soul that sings--the spring is torturing me and taunting me. If only it would kill me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I might only die, if I might only die!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite hopeless!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Lady Engleton," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand they are all at the Priory," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; Miss Du Prel telegraphed to Mrs. Temperley, and Mrs. Temperley and I put our heads together and arranged matters as well as we could in the emergency, so that the Professor's wish might be g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad I have seen the spring again, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't tell you what pleasure and comfort your music is to me, he used to say, again and again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has been so ever since I knew you. When I think of the thousands of poor devils who have to end their lives in some wretched, lonely, so...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It shall be our business to see that it is not," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My earlier work is safe; what I have done in other directions, is already a part of human knowledge and resource, but this is just the sort of thing that might be so easily lost and forgot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be too sure, old friend, said the Professor;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't we save him? can't we save him, Hadria? she used to cry piteously, when they were alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely, surely there is some hope. Science makes such professions; why doesn't it do something?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have found, of late, that many of my old fixed ideas have been insidiously modifying. So many things that I used to regard as preposterous have been borne in upon me, in a singular fashion, as by no means so out ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been for many years without one gleam of hope, said the Professor slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is only lately that some of my obstinate preconceptions have begun to yield to other suggestions and other thoughts, which have opened up a thousand pos...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And if the scheme of the universe be a reasonable one, he said half dreamily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To believe that all the better and more generous hopes of our kind are to be lost and ineffectual, that genius is finally wasted, and goodness an exotic to be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _can't_ understand it! she exclaimed at last, with a wild gesture," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _can't_ believe he will never speak to me again! It's a horrible dream--oh, but too horrible--ah, why can't I die as well as he?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The robin!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does Marriage Hinder a Woman's Self-development?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Does Marriage Hinder a Woman's Self-development?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What genius and enthusiasm that dear girl does display!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you will excuse my remarking, my dear, that I think you might be more usefully, not to say becomingly employed, in attending to your children and your household duties, than in dealing with explosive substances in the back dining-room." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ego Juventus Mundi A Beautiful Old Age The Attraction Of The Repulsive Giving As A Luxury Climate And Happiness The New Feminine Reserve Repose In Activity Women--Ideal And Real The Art Of Idleness Is There Any Conversation The Tall Girl The Deadly Diary The Whistling Girl Born ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, now I am in Arden: the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Annie Laurie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fair Harvard." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Time to take the train, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not going to take any train." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ain't your name Smith?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's your initials? A. T.; clear out!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and that one of his peculiarities was an instant response of the deltoid muscle to the brain, though he did not express it in that language. He went on to explain to his auditor that he was so constituted physically that whenever he saw a fight, no matter whose property it was, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see the porpoise?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arms," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Them! said he, with the merited contempt which officials in this country have for inquisitive travelers,--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the witching hour of half past ten, said my comrade," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(The reader will notice the consideration for her feelings which has omitted the usual description of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where, we said, as we came easily, and neither uphill nor downhill, into the pleasant harbor of St. John,---" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is nothing but the ruins of an old fort, they said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, then you can go another way. You can take the Intercolonial railway round to Pictou, catch the steamer for Port Hawkesbury, connect with the steamer on the Bras d'Or, and you are all right." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "High Latitudes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look out for Evangeline while the bell rings." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evangeline," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun, And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Love me Little, Love me Long, and I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of some kinds, I am." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you ever see a work called 'Evange...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Garden of Nova Scotia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I asked the bright and light-minded colored boy who sold papers on the morning train," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pho, said he, with contempt," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sick of 'em. Halifax is played out, and I'm going to quit it." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confederate money; but probably no one was wounded by the severity; for perhaps no one knew what a resemblance in badness there is between the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confederate" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was then summer, and the weather very fine; so pleased was I with the country, in which I had never travelled before, that my delight proved equal to my wonder." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So! girl; so! Kitty, murmurs the driver in the softest tones of admiration;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No English, plenty garlic." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It had a winder in the top of it, and silver handles," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I declare; and you could 'a looked right in?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I'd been a mind to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who has died?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand away," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never was on Cape Breton, our driver had said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But it is a lovely country?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see ary a sick man 'bout 'Tigonish?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nary." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's one been round here for three or four days, pretty bad off; 's got the St. Vitus's. He wanted me to get him some medicine for it up t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was an old man of Canso, Unable to sit or stan' so. When I asked him why he ran so, Says he, 'I've St. Vitus' dance so, All down the Gut of Canso.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am very sleepy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's dam hard." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you are," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is this stage for Baddeck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not much." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is there any stage for Baddeck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not to-day." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where does this go, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, there's Jim Hughes, come over at midnight with a passenger from Baddeck; he's in the hotel now; perhaps he'll take you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go right in," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you live in Baddeck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; Hogamah,--half-way there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you take us to Baddeck to-day?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course you all have the poems of Burns?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the name o' the mon?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Burns, Robert Burns." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never heard tell of such a mon. Have heard of Robert Bru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hogamah." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why-ko-ko-magh. Hogamah." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He had no ill-will to the Scotch; for, if he had been conscious of that, he never would have thrown himself into the bosom of their country, and trusted to the protection of its remote inhabitants with a fearless confidence." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thine arrows sharply pierce the heart of th' enemies of the king, And under thy sub-jec-shi-on the people down do bring." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a pleasant jail, but it doesn't look much like our great prisons; we have as many as a thousand to twelve hundred men in some of our institutions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, ay, I have heard tell, said the jailer, shaking his head in pity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, we have a good many criminals, but the majority of them, the majority of those in jails, are foreigners; they come from Ireland, England, and the Provinces." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's an awfu' wicked country." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you? cried the man, delighted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've lived in Boston, myself. There's just been an awful fire near there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, here it is, in the last paper. The man bustled away and found his late paper,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes. When the census was round, I contributed more to it than anybody in town. Got a wife and eleven children." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, don't you think it would pay best to be honest, and live with your family, out of jail? You surely never had anythi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's a yelper." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in him, if he could be coaxed to show it. For the first half-hour he went mostly in a circle in front of the inn, moving indifferently backwards or forwards, perfectly willing to go down the road, but refusing to start along the bay in the direction of Middle River. Of course a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to slave away her uneventful life in, and bring up her scantily clothed and semi-wild flock of children. And yet I suppose there must be happiness in it,--there always is where there are plenty of children, and milk enough for them. A white-haired boy who lacked adequate trouser...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One town, one country, is very like another; ...... there are indeed minute discriminations both of places and manners, which, perhaps, are not wanting of curiosity, but which a traveller seldom stays long enough to investigate and compare." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the beginning of the war this poor, half-witted creature told me, in a great fright, that thirty thousand French had marched from Acadie to Cape Breton. 'Where did they find transports?' said I. 'Transports!' cried he; 'I tell you, they marched by land.' By land to the island...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "over-shadows this part of the continent. And it was for once in vain that I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have we not a common land and a common literature, and no copyright, and a common pride in Shakespeare and Hannah More and Colonel Newcome and Pepys's Dia...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evelina; they had all the vivacity of the pleasant cousins of the heroine of that story, and the same generosity towards the public in regard to their family affairs. Before they had been in the cabin an hour, we felt as if we knew every one of them. There was a great squabble a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pa?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, pet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't call us in the morning; we don't want any breakfast; we want to sleep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord's-Day Gale" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Greek." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. When did he flourish?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't think." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't think? What was he noted for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't remember...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "though" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Garden of Nova Scotia." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did Lycurgus do then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. He made laws. Who did he make laws for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For the Greeks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He made laws for the Lacedemonians. Who was another great law...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pa, everybody can hear us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would n't care how much they heard, if you knew it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pa, what is a phalanx?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, a phalanx--it's a--it's difficult to define a phalanx. It's a stretch of men in one line,--a stretch of anything in a line. When did Alexander flourish?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "amount to! Are they not for the most part the records of the misapprehensions of the misinformed? Let us congratulate ourselves that in this flight through the Provinces we have not attempted to do any justice to them, geologically, economically, or historically, only trying to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No man can do anything in art, unless he has intuitions; but, between whiles, one must work hard in collecting the materials out of which intuitions are made." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why not write something which I myself, as well as my readers, shall enjoy? The market gives them facts enough; politics, lies enough; art, affectations enough; criminal news, horrors enough; fashion, more than enough of vanity upon vanity, and vexation of purse. Why should they...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Courant," } ]