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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of boys on it, and there is nothing like it for whittling away boot-leather. The boy is the shoemaker's friend. An active lad can wear down a pair of cowhide soles in a week so that the ice will scrape his toes. Sledding or coasting is also slow fun compared to the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That boy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--except little things. While he drew his chair up to the table in order to get the full radiance of the tallow candle on his slate or his book, the women of the house also sat by the table knitting and sewing. The head of the house sat in his chair, tipped back against the chim...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "with one of them, for an insult, in a stand-up fight, and he instinctively softened a boy's natural rudeness when he was with them. He would help a timid little girl to stand erect and slide; he would draw her on his sled, till his hands were stiff with cold, without a murmur; h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss C. Rudd requests the pleasure of the company of, etc., all in blue ink, and the finest kind of pin-scratching writing. What a precious document it was to John! It even exhaled a faint sort of perfume, whether of lavender or caraway-seed he could not tell. He read it over a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a pleasant evening," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is quite so," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you come in a cutter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; I walked on the crust, and it was perfectly lovely walking," }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she was right pretty;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her mouth would be well enough if she did n't laugh so much and show her teeth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, said Cynthia warmly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Northampton," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-night, John!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-night, Cynthia!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sap's runnin'!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They maintained perfect" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "so long as the dog was getting the best of the woodchuck; but if the latter was likely to escape, they" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in the interest of peace and the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which he pulled up, and found that the soft end" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he dug the amber gum from the spruce-tree, and liked to smell, though he could not chew, the gum of the wild cherry; it was his melancholy duty to bring home such medicinal herbs for the g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or being a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Democrat. John knew a couple of desperately bad boys who were reported to play" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in a barn, on the haymow, and the enormity of this practice made him shudder. He had once seen a pack...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "at the end of it--the doleful voice always repeating," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--made John as m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and he heard over and over again that the probability was if he did not get it now, he never would. The chance did not come often, and if this offer was not improved, John would be given over to hardness of heart. His obstinacy would show that he was not one of the elect. John f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This he earnestly tried to have. Other people, no better than he, had it, and he wondered why he could n't have it. Boys and girls whom he knew were" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and John began to feel not only panicky, but lonesome. Cynthia Rudd had been anxious fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he felt that he could force the crisis. He was alone on the sandy road; it was an enchanting summer night; the stars danced overhead, and by his side the broad and shallow river ran over its stony bed with a loud but soothing murmur that filled all the air with entreaty. John di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Massachusetts. So he stood up and raised his hand, and said to the schoolma'am," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, ma'am, I 've got the stomach-ache; may I go home? And John's character for truthfulness was so high (and even this was ever a reproach to him), that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lexington was a runner. John was fond of horses, he knew about Lexington, and he had looked forward to the result of this race with keen interest. But to read the account of it how he felt might destroy his seriousness of mind, and in all reverence and simplicity he felt it--be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "at home, and it had its great days of parade and its autumn maneuvers, like the general training. It was an artillery company, which gave every boy a chance to wear a sword, and it possessed a small mounted cannon, which was dragged about and limbered and unlimbered and fired, t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the other if he could, or for half a dozen to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "one of the enemy if they caught him alone. The notion of honor, as of mercy, comes into the boy only when he is pretty well grown; to some neither ever comes. And yet there was an artificial...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanatopsis" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "you would not have fancied that he lived in an ideal world. Nor did he consciously. So far as he knew, he had no more sentiment than a jack-knife. Although he loved Cynthia Rudd devotedly, and blushed scarlet one day when hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Victory!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--within the scoop-top smile benevolently on the sorrel back. It is the deacon's horse, a meeting-going nag, with a sedate, leisurely jog as he goes; and these are two of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--the brevet rank of the women who stand and wait,--going dow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So here we pledge perpetual hate To all that can intoxicate;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The way to mount a horse" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you have no ladder--put in the Friend of Humanity." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The way to mount a horse is to grasp the mane with the left hand holding the bridle-rein, put your left foot in the stirrup, with the right hand on the back of the saddle, and---" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it the best?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We warrant you perfect satisfaction in every respect. This seems to be only a formula of expression, for we found that the statement was highly colored. It was left to our imagination to conjecture how the big chambers o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and expected to live on the country, trusting to the infrequent but remunerated hospitality of the widely scattered inhabitants. We were to dine at Ramsey's. Ramsey's had been recommended to us as a royal place of entertainment the best in all that region; and as the sun grew ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless our Home" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, this house stands on the line. Where you sit, you are in Tennessee; I'm in North Carolina." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you live here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Law, no; I'm just staying a little while at the colonel's. I live over the mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To my mind the incident has Homeric elements. The Greeks would have looked at it in a large, legendary way. Here is Helen, strong and lithe of limb, ox-eyed, courageous, but woman-hearted and love-inspiring, contended for by all the braves and daring moonshiners of Cut Laurel Ga...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I consider everything that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elements of Moral Science." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where you see the 'Elements of Moral Science,' the Friend generalized," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How lovely this would be," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blue Ridge Baptist," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elements of Morality," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to dwell upon these things of the senses, when one is on a tour in search of the picturesque? Let the reader ride from Abingdon through a wilderness of cornpone and rusty bacon, and then judge. There were, to be sure, novels lying about, and newspapers, and fragments of informat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "), has had the worst possible reputation. The mountains were hiding-places of illicit distilleries; the woods were full of grog-shanties, where the inflaming fluid was sold as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, a man did that when he put my girl in a hole." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How heavy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How heavy do I journey on the way, When what I seek--my weary travel's end Doth teach that ease and that repose to say, Thus far the miles are measur'd from thy friend! The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, Plods dully ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Most of the mines which yield well show signs of having been worked before, a very long time ago, no doubt by the occupants before the Indians. The mica is of excellent quality and easily mined. It is got out in large irregular-shaped blocks and transported to the factories, whe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, murder! what crimes are done in thy name." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,-- As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily foresworn, And gilded honor shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I discovered that I had lost my purse just after meeting you; it may have been dropped in Toe River, but I was told back here that if David Thomas had picked it up, it was as safe as if it were in the bank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What sort of a pocket-book wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm exceedingly grateful to you besides. Washington's hair is getting scarce, and I did not want to lose these few hairs, gray as they are. You've done the honest thing, Mr. Thomas, as was expected of you. You might have kept the whole. But I reckon if there had been five hundre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confederate?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was he on the Union or Confederate side?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Union." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Were you in any engagements?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you're afraid, you can git set over in a dugout, and I'll take your horses across. Mebbe you're used to fording? It's a pretty bad ford for them as don't know it. But you'll get along if you mind your eye. There's some rocks you'll have to look out for. But you'll be all righ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was one sale of a big piece last year; the owner enthorited Big Tom Wilson to sell it, but I d'know what he got for it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All I want, said the long-bearded man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I declare said the long-bearded man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's just it. Did you ever see Vanderbilt's house? Neither did I, but I heard he had a vault built in it five fee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, the old man, one of the sons confided to us next morning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Though Big Tom had waged a lifelong warfare with the bears, and taken the hide off at least a hundred of them, I could not see that he had any vindictive feeling towards the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alas," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke? 'T is not enough that through the cloud thou break, To dry...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "yellow girl, took the comical view of his race, which was greatly enjoyed by his audience. His face was blackened to the proper color of the stage-darky, and he wore a flaming suit of calico, the trousers and coat striped longitudinally according to Punch's idea of" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, exclaimed a bright woman in the crowd," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Happy John was sure enough one of Wade Hampton's slaves, and he's right good looking when he's not blackened up." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mary's gone away wid de coon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "side of the black man as a means of low comedy, and the enjoyment of it by all the people of color. They appeared to appreciate as highly as anybody the comic element in themselves, and Happy John had empha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I intend, said the orator," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This political hit called forth great applause. All his arguments were of this pointed character, and they appeared to be unanswerable. The orator appeared to prove that there wasn't a respectable man in the o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jane and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eliza," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure to be the greatest and hottest [campaign and civil battle] ever known in this world. The thunder of the supreme struggle and its reverberations will shake the continents for months, and will be felt from Pole to Pole." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and caused th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "with scarcely a ribbon of room to spare on either side. The river is shallow, rapid, stony, muddy, full of rocks, with an occasional little island covered with low bushes. The rock seems to be a clay formation, rotten and colored. As we approach Warm Springs the scenery becomes ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, We, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've got nothing for stock but roughness; perhaps you can get something at the other house." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Roughness," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why do you smoke?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So as I shan't get into the habit of dipping. Do you think dipping is nice?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All the girls dips round here. But me and my sisters rather smoke than get in a habit of dipping....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Allow us to thank our old traveling friends for the many favors in our line, and if you are going on your bridal trip, or to see your girl out West, drop in at the general office of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway and we will fix you up in Queen Anne style. Passengers for Dakot...
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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": "; we say now simply" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "East-Londoners" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reception" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cannot something be done to stop social screaming? The question is referred to the scientific branch of the Social Science Association. If it is a mere fashion, the association can do nothing. But it might institute some practical experiments. It might get together in a small ro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Conversation Lunch" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "than anybody else. There is nothing mysterious about her first recorded performance. Eve trusted the serpent, and Adam trusted Eve. The mystery was in the serpent. There is no evidence that the ancient Egyptian woman was more difficult to comprehend than the Egyptian man. They w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "for" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us have a new deal!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "referred to in the woman's journals--has often been noticed in novels, and sometimes in real life. This shyness is, however, so exceptional as to be suspicious. The shy young man may provoke curiosity, but he does not always inspire respect. Roughly estimated, shyness is not con...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am able to support you; I am able to protect you from the rough usage of the world; I am strong and ambitious, and eager to take upon myself the lovely bondage of this responsibility. I offer you this love because I feel the courage and responsibility of my position. That is t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or at a watering-place, or permanently selects itself for certain social manifestations. It is this that needs a missionary to infuse into it sympathy and charity. If it were indeed a machine and not made up of sensitive personalities, it would not be to its members so selfish a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "rasping their throats into bronchitis in the bidding of the conversational ring. If they spoke low, or even in the ordinary tone, conversation would be possible. But then it would not be a reception, as we understand it. We cannot neglect anywhere any of the pleasures of our soc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is pretty common, however it may be in England, whence come rumors occasionally of accomplished men who decline to be interrupted by the frivolity of talk upon the appearance of favorite dishes. And private talk at a table is not the sort that saves a dinner; however good it is,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spirit of '76." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I were governor of a small island, and had nothing to do but to get up and govern." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Constitution, he has nothing to do but to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for a few hours, that is, to decide about things on general principles, and with little personal application, and perhaps about large concerns which nobody knows anything about, and which are mu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown does not refer to the discomfort of wearing it, but to the danger of losing it, and of being put back upon one's native resources, having to run a grocery or to keep school. Nobody is in such a pitiable plight as a monarch or politician ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dixie or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marching through Georgia," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Girl I Left Behind Me or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My Country, 'tis of Thee." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This mathematical axiom, which is well enough in its place, has been extended into the field of morals and social life, confused the perception of human relations, and raised" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friends, says the preacher, in an impressive manner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alexander died; Napoleon died; you will all die! This profound remark, so true, so thoughtful, creates a deep sensation. It is deepened by the statement that" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The poor fellow is just swelling away." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Trust --the modern escape out of ruinous competition. When the expense of our annual charity becomes so great that the poor are discouraged from sharing in it, and the rich even feel it a burden, there would seem to be no way but the establishment of neighborhood" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you, in America, ever write stories for children?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "will have to be added a periodic" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he could become a scholar with very little study, and without grappling with any of the real difficulties in the way of an education. It is no more a short-cut we desire, but a road of easy grades, with a locomotive that will pull our train along while we sit in a palace-car at ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "machine. By dropping a cent in the slot one can get his weight, his age, a piece of chewing-gum, a bit of candy, or a shock that will energize his nervous system. Why not get from a similar machine a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or an" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is said to be locoed. It is a term describing a shade of mental obliquity and queerness something short of irresponsible madness, and something more than temporarily" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Indians and others not taxed" } ]
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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 ...