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44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Floating Palace"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Floating Palace"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Floating Palace."
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Floating Palace"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Floating Palace"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can laugh, said Ben, shaking his finger in the man's face,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want to do that for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because, answered Ben,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean to show up some things that will astonish the natives. I mean to prove that there is a corrupt ring in the courts of this county... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you ain't going to make that 'ere railroad run through my land, be you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The track will pass straight through your front door,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This ere road is going to do me a powerful lot of harm. I'd give a pile of money rather than have the track cut through my property."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you might speak to Mr. Hogan about the matter. Perhaps you could induce him to change the route. ... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ben Hogan,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is your real estate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In Pittsburg, answered Ben."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is first-class unincumbered property, and you're bound to accept me as bail!"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, sir, I mean to have you arrested for blackmail!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wh-wh-what do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, returned Hogan,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you know I own this ground?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what if you do? answered Ben."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know I couldn't get a lease anywhere in the town, so I have come out here where I don't molest anybody."
},
{
... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, if you will agree not to keep your place open Sundays, you can stay,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whose place is this, anyhow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Professor Hogan's,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, now, I want to know! ejaculated the farmer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you have some other kind of business, maybe?"
... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a female college,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A female college. Well, I do declare! exclaimed the farmer's wife."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What an excellent idee to be sure. Here we've lived in the oil country all these years and never h... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, said he,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think of it! said Ben, with assumed indignation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such a man as Hogan elected burgess of Petrolia! Why, it's a disgrace to the town--a libel upon the elective system!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's so, returned the f... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, gentlemen, here is a circular from Mr. Hogan, one of the heaviest operators in this region. He says that he owns fifteen wells, and yet even he is not able to produce his oil for less than five dollars a barrel!"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, Ben would say,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you whip me as easily as you have this man, I will stand a champagne supper for you and all your friends."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're getting high-toned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon, said Ben;"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know anything about the referee's decision, said Ben."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I'm willing to fight you in this saloon here now, for all the stakes that have been put up. We can decide the matter without any more nonsense. There has been too much ta... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, really, said our hero,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've nothing to say. Fists and not talk must decide this matter. You have already seen Allen; have you not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, replied Dr. Miller,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take anybody, he said to Sweeney,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Foul! foul!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you can't lick this man by fair means, you can't lick him at all!"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are gone, as sure as fate!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean, answered his friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well, answered Ben,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you don't stop, I'll shoot!"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, she did, did she?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, continued the woman;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, he must be a good deal of a fool,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell him that I will put up this two hundred dollars as a forfeit to fight him for even money, for the amount he has named, the fight to come off in thirty days."
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I desire to detain you only a moment, ladies and gentlemen. As you are all well aware, I built this Opera House for the sake of furnishing the public with amusement. There was nobody else who had the capital or the energy to do this work. Now you all know that there are from for... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow is election day. I want to say a word to the working men, and it is this: Vote for the best candidates, never minding what their politics are. You will find plenty of men running for office who will be your friends so long as they can make tools of you. But after elect... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must count me out of this job, gentlemen. I will furnish you the money for any legitimate purpose, but I must decline to hold a hand in the game!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and commonly as offering counterfeit money for sale. But the reader will observe, as t... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wouldn't believe it, Ben would add,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you be willing, asked Coburn,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am ready, answered Ben,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That makes no difference, said Ben;"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may be a prize fighter, said the latter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I'm in want again, said the girl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall look you up to help me."
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cousin!"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What sort of a weight do you want to throw?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A dumb bell,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there isn't any one hundred and thirty pound dumb bell in the town!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Ben,"
... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's one failure! exclaimed Ben,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but they needed a little ready money to do it. Would Ben go them two hundred or two hundred and fifty dollars for about half an hour? They would stand in with him evenly for all they made. Ben gave the fellows his money, and they went forward to another car to operate upon the"
... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see that the Allen-Rourke fight did not take place as proposed. A large number of sporting men having assembled to witness this contest, I herewith propose, in order to prevent them from being disappointed, to take Rourke's place and fight Allen for five hundred or one thousan... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have no right, he said,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you in for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't know!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you in for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't know!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what sort of a man is this Mayo... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have no right to interfere with these ladies. They are doing simply what they believe to be right; and, whether right or wrong, no decent man will insult them. It might be a good deal better for you if you had lived up to the principles of temperance yourself. Perhaps your w... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just look at these. You wouldn't think they were counterfeit, now, would you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Counterfeit! the farmer would exclaim, in amazement, at the same time taking the bills and examining them critically."
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What am I offered for this property, gentlemen? You all know what it is worth, and the circumstances under which it is sold. What do I hear to start it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Five hundred dollars!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Five hundred and... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The property is yours, sir. I hope you are satisfied with your bargain!"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Physical Culture."
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ben admitted that he didn't know much about the vineyard, but remarked that he was an earnest worker in the gymnasium. After a brief (very brief) season of mutual congratulations, the rural divine started to seek a genuine brother with a study more to his taste."
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten Nights in a Barroom"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't afraid of Ben, added the intrepid doorkeeper;"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ben Hogan, this is all very well, but what remedy do you propose--how are you going to help us out of the mire? In answer I reply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If society is at present so constituted that liquor saloons cannot be done away with, I propose that not ... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A sound mind and a sound body."
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! exclaims such a one,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wine and women are equally destructive to the soul,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been tempted, and the temptation has proved greater than you can bear. But we will forgive and forget. Let the past be wiped out forever. Your life is still before you, and you may redeem yourself yet. Our love shall cover your sin, and you shall still be to us a belove... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For example, says this distinguished Frenchman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As a necessary consequence of this feature of life, assured to us by Monsieur Flourens, that able gentleman modifies seriously the different ages or stages of our existence."
},
{
... |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One man's meat is another man's poison,"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we enjoy the whole--the entirety of the life that the Good Father has given us, or shall we drawl out an imperfect existence from the cradle to the grave?"
}
] |
44282 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, I observed, in reply to his remark,"
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Joy, thou heavenly spark of Godhead!"
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(to quote Richard Wagner)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "yet, as life had no allurements for him in the ordinary sense, he had less necessity laid on him to make much money; and"
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and therefore its pure ardour goes straight to the heart of the hearer. But he was not contented with his work, upon which he had already spent much time and thought. A frown gathered heavily upon his overhanging brows, as, hum... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was such a good, loving mother to me, and my best friend. Oh, no one could be more fortunate than I, when I was able to speak that sweet name 'Mother', and it was heard--and to whom shall I ever say it now? --And it continued as a vague but fervent longing for some sweet unk... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Scherzo of the 'Moonlight' Sonata, wherein a troop of glimmering fairy forms come dancing through the midnight forest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pathétique, transfused with gloomy majesty; the _Scherzo_ of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moo... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Secondly--that, being a consummate master of the science of music, and the best pianist, perhaps, of his day, he had no occasion to put to proof in actual performance, as the amateur does, the constructions of his fertile brain. Thirdly--and chiefly, and sorrowful to relate--whe... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nature seemed his nourishment, Neate said afterwards."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He seemed to live upon and by her."
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The outer world ... once more stands before him as in the Pastoral Symphony: everything is rendered luminous to him by his inner happiness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He stood, as has previously been shown, nearer in point of genius to Shakespeare than to any oth... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His criticisms were ingenuous, original, full of curious ideas"
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Music the art was for him the breath of life: music the profession, as generally understood,"
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did the old composers who were pianists, play? he asked of his audience."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They did not run up and down the keyboard with their carefully-practised passages--_putsch, putsch, putsch_!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When ... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us go out into the country,"
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shed On spirits that had long been dead, Spirits dried up and closely furled, The freshness of the early world."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Know'st thou the house, its roof on columns white? .... O there, O there, might I with thee, Beloved, go!"
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My son, said Beethoven, clapping him on the shoulder,"
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such things, he thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have only found two friends in the world with whom I have never had a misunderstanding. One is dead; the other still lives. Although we have heard nothing of each other for six years, I know that I still hold ... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O ye who think or say that I am rancorous, obstinate or misanthropical, what an injustice you do me! You little know the hidden cause of my appearing so. From childhood my heart and mind have been devoted to benevolent feelings, and to the thoughts of great deeds to be achieved ... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God, Thou lookest downward on my inward soul! he murmured,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou knowest, Thou seest that love for my fellow-men, and all kindly feelings have their abode there! ... But I have no real friends; I must live alone. But I know that God is... |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The _Allegro Finale_ of the C-sharp-minor Quartet ... wild delight, the lamentation of anguish, ecstasy of love, highest rapture, misery, rage, voluptuousness and sorrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "("
}
] |
59672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have it! I have it! he exclaimed, as those magnificent phrases which were to be the crown and consummation of the great Ninth Symphony, at last were crystallised into shape upon his brain. And at that moment he entered, as it were, upon a new world of light,"
},
{
"fro... |
59252 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lazy, incompetent fools! he would say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The world's full of them. And they've elected a government of fools, taxing me to support the others."
}
] |
59252 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're coddling people, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're teaching them to live on charity, on government hand-outs--and I'm expected to pay for it all. Cut them loose; let them sink or swim for themselves. If some of them don't survive--well, they won't; ... |
59252 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been reading your political pamphlets, Mr. Firth, the Stranger said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hold rather--rather fascinating views."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now that I'm suitably flattered, Firth answered,"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
59252 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adam! Firth cried, with his usual, boisterous good-humor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never thought I'd find you out here at this time of day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not? The physicist shrugged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
59252 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll insist that they marry, of course, Adam Boetz said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're talking, one of the women whispered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how can you recruit men and women u... |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Human Documents."
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Ironsides from destruction. That was the pet name of the frigate"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Constitution,"
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nail to the mast her holy flag, Spread every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poetry, a Metrical Essay,"
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope I shall remember those very words always."
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and quick as light Emerson said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are the three great prefaces?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Institutes,"
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fable for Critics. I called him"
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where in the realm of thought, whose air is song, Does he, the Buddha of the West, belong? He seems a wingèd Franklin, sweetly wise, Born to unlock the secrets of the skies; And which the nobler calling,--if 'tis fair Terrestrial with celestial to compare,-- To guide the storm-c... |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told her--I had to tell her--that in reading my mind is always active. I do not follow the author steadily or implicitly, but my thought runs off to right and left. It runs off in every direction, and I find I am not so much taking his book as I am thinking my own thoughts upo... |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stick to your aim: the mongrel's hold will slip, But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is the trouble of having so many friends, everybody flatters you. I do not mean to let them hurt me if I can help it, and flattery is not ... |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ploughman, to be read at a cattle-show in Pittsfield."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And when I came to read it afterwards I said, 'Here it is! Here is open air life, here is what breathing the mountain air and living in the midst of nature does for a man!' And I... |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cannot make the people of this generation understand the effect of Everett's oratory. I have never felt the fascination of speech as I did in hearing him. Did it ever occur to you,--did I say to you the other day,--that when a man has such a voice as he had, our slight nasal... |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "America. I noticed that Doctor Holmes always called him"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My country 'tis of thee, and so did all of us. And then these two critics began analyzing that magnificent song."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will not do to laug... |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life of Emerson."
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "North American Review"
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "American Men of Letters series. Apparently he had not. Just think of it! Here is a poet, the head of our"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Academy,"
}
] |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Holmes wrote his reply under the date"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beverly-by-the-Depot. And here let me stop to tell one of those jokes for which the English language and Doctor Holmes were made. A few years ago, in a fit of economy, our... |
33771 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is as bad as the story of the 'Man Without a Country;' and I do not know how much to believe, and how much to disbelieve."
}
] |
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