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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were foolish to leave the hotel so soon. I got a good sum of money. There was an English family, that gave me a good reward. My music pleased them. The English are always generous and extravagant. Oh, Dio, I forgot; one of them sent you this note by me. He explained nothing;...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are you, Peter Margerison? Sit down and talk to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite alone this morning. Denis and Lucy have motored to Genoa. I join them there this afternoon.... You didn't know last night that I saw you." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How it takes one back--takes one back," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lest you get conceited, young Peter, with me begging for your company and being kindly refused, I'll tell you something. I loved your mother; my brother's wife. Did you ever guess that?--guess why ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judging from the writing on the envelopes they were sent by a lady," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I can not obtain relief, said the famished mother," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must take my remaining five children and drown myself with them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What think you of this self-confidence? Is it not a proof of excess of vanity? A general of brigade protect the heads of government! That truly is an event highly probable! I know not how it is, but sometimes this waywardness gains upon me to such a degree, that almost I believe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The virtuous man never doubts of the existence of God, for if his reason does not suffice to comprehend it, the instinct of his soul adopts the belief. Every intimate feeling of the soul is in sympathy with the sentiments of religion." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Josephine, said Napoleon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Political motives induced me to divorce Josephine, whom I most tenderly loved. She, poor woman, fortunately for herself, died in time to prevent her from witnessing the last of my misfortunes. After her forcible separation from me, she avowed, in most feeling terms, her ardent d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God speed the Eagles of France." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the leader, said one, as he left this first council," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I learned, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have just now been reading something that struck me very forcibly. Montesquieu here remarks, 'When the prince rises above the laws, when tyranny becomes insupportable, the oppressed have no alternative but--'"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were utterly amazed at the folly of the Directory in sending such a youth to command an army in circumstances so desperate. Rampon undertook to give the young commander some advice. Napoleon, who demanded obedience not advice, impatiently brushed him away, exclaiming," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Soldiers! you are hungry and naked; the government owes you much, and can pay you nothing. Your patience, your courage, in the midst of these rocks, are admirable, but they reflect no splendor upon your arms. I come to lead you into the most fertile plains the sun beholds. Rich ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My title of nobility, said he proudly to the Emperor of Austria," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The education of Lannes had been much neglected but his mind rose to the level of his courage. He became a giant. He adored me as his protector, his superior being, his providence. In the impetuosity of his temper he sometimes allowed hasty expressions against me to escape his l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hannibal, he exclaimed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The king of Sardinia, says Napoleon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Napoleon, however, with the commissioners who had been sent to treat with him, assumed a very confident and imperious tone. He demanded, as a preliminary to any armistice, that the important fortress...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "People of Italy! The French army advances to break your chains. The French people are the friends of all nations. In them you may confide. Your property, your religion, your customs shall be respected. We will only make war as generous foes. Our sole quarrel is with the tyrants ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would be a magnificent field for speculation to estimate what would have been the destinies of France and of Europe, had England satisfied herself with denouncing the murder of Louis XVI., which would have been for the interests of public morality, and listened to the council...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My first laurel is due to my country. My second shall be yours. While pursuing the enemy I thought of France. When he was beaten I thought of Josephine. Your son will send you a scarf surrendered to him by Colonel Morback, whom he took prisoner with his own hand. You see, Madame...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is impossible, said one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How! impossible! exclaimed Napoleon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Follow your General!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, said Napoleon, who was fond of speaking, as well as acting the sublime," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Turning to a body of dragoons near by, he exclaimed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As false as a bulletin, has become a proverb. The necessity of uttering falsehood and practicing deception in all their varied forms, is one of the smallest of the innumerable immoralities attendant upon war. From time immemorial it has been declared that the weapons of deceptio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a strange sight, says a French veteran, who was present at this battle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This beardless youth, said an Austrian general, indignantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This house to let; for the keys apply to the French Commissioner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you desire liberty, said the victor to the Milanese," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The wealthy and avaricious Duke of Modena, whose states bordered upon...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very difficult, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Different affairs are arranged in my head, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After spending several successive days and nights without sleep, in preparation for a decisive conflict, he has been known repeatedly to fall asleep in the midst of the uproar and horr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hitherto, he writes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One bad general is better than two good ones. War, like government, is mainly decided by tact." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is in the highest degree impolitic to divide into two the army of Italy; and not less adverse to place at its head two different generals. The expedition to the Papal States is a very inconsiderable matter, and should be made by divisions in echelon, ready at any moment to wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May the terrible example of Banasco, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "While Pavia has walls, the insurgents bravely replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The order, said Napoleon to the inhabitants," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was extremely indignant with the garrison for allowing themselves to be made prisoners." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cowards, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man of refined sensibilities, says the Duke of Wellington," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pavia, said Napoleon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What class is this? he inquired, as he entered the first recitat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If my commissary should see me accept this money, who can tell to what lengths he might go. The Venetian envoys retired from their mission deeply impressed with the genius of Napoleon. They had expected to find only a stern warrior. To their surprise they met a statesman, whose ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The governor of Leghorn has violated all the rights of neutrality, by oppressing French commerce, and by affording an asylum to the emigrants and to all the enemies of the Republic. Out of respect to your authority I send the unfaithful servant to be punished at your discretion....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't incommode yourself, it's my mamma." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beneficencia, by whom it is farmed out, and the profits appropriated to the support of hospitals and charitable institutions. It is the usual practice of the Limanians to purchase tickets regularly; the negroes in particular, as elsewhere, are particularly addicted to trying the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is an act of courtesy to insist that one's neighbor shall take the precedence in the salutation; and he, not to be outdone in politeness, must waive the proffered honor. The courteous contest--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You say it, and" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! afraid of wetting your feet, when you are to wade up to your knees in blood! exclaimed the veteran Juan de Rada, the leader of the band. The dainty conspirator was ordered to return to his quarters as not worthy of a share in the enterprise. Pizarro was sitting with his fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "upon his trembling lips, no less than the foreigner who has never before witnessed these convulsive throes of nature. The moment a shock is felt the Cathedral bell begins to toll, all the belfries in Lima take up the sound, and summon the affrighted population to their devotions...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no harm done, Somers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of you lend me a knife," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every penny of it, he replied, in a dry, fainting voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What in the name of madness could induce you to venture your all upon a single throw in so hazardous a game?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will tell you, he went ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out with it, sir! exclaimed the steel-nerved man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you need not; I see it all. Ally has failed--the tobacco has been seized--and he is in prison." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has been betrayed, and I think I know b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am come to tell you, sir, that Ally is dead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was somewhat prepared for this bad news, Mr. Somers, I answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's hard upon you, but it should be bravely borne with." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cut loose at once! I again shouted; and the men, as terribly impressed as myself, with the horror of the wretched smuggler's position, swept the boat rapidly toward the spot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somers, if you shoot that man you shall die on the gallows." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hampshire Telegraph," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The body of an aged, wretched man was found frozen to death in the church-yard on Wednesday morning last, near two adjoining graves, one of which, that of Alice Maynard, recalls the painful circumstances connected w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Having observed, from my infancy, that the poor of Marseilles are ill-supplied with water, which can only be procured at a great price, I have cheerfully labored the whole of my life to procure for them this great blessing, and I direct that the whole of my property shall be exp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish to be bled, said he;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Half a livre, was the reply. The demand was deemed extortionate, and the surgeon was dismissed. He then sent for an apothecary, but he was also considered too hig...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In some part of these defenses she posts herself as an advanced guard; and, should a beetle venture to intrude within her fortifications, she pounces on him, and, giving no quarter, kills him without mercy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, with any certainty, in what language Adam declared his love to Eve? inquired I, one day, from a philologist of my acquaintance. I put my question with so much earnestness, that he answered, quite seriously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, to be sure,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I love! I am beloved!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear sir, if you are with the children, I will permit it; for I trust to you, and I know that you will take care of them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, to be sure," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as the greatest happiness of his life; besides which I had derived from my home the most beautiful impressions of domestic life. Hence I always represented to myself the highest good in the world under the image of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I love you! and heard...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear Constantine, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you intended to stay at Greendale a much longer time?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I replied with a pensive air, taking at the s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sundholm!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sundholm! sounded awfully through my ears for many a long hour. I began to reason on the subject. If, said I, Nature has bestowed a bass-voice on this beautiful young lady, is it not noble and excellent of her not to try to co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She answered" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank Heaven, it was not too late!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is better to be alone than to be ill-accompanied." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stenbacke. Trees, after all, are wooden and dull things, when we crave for human sympathies; and echo, the voice of the rocks, is the most wearisome voice I know. No! heart to heart, eye to eye, that is the life; and to live together, a happy and healthy rural life, to work for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is she--it is she, who is my happiness! said the fortunate husband; but she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is he! it is he!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My dear friend, said I to him one day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am so glad to see that you also have faults; I feel now less humiliated, less unhappy from my own." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go on, Sir Edward; proceed, Sir Edward; what's the cause of the stoppage?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My lord, answered the latter," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought your lordship was not attending to my argument." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Edward! exclaimed the Lord Chancellor, in angry and ironical accents, after the learned gentleman had been silent for a few moments--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sir Edward! pray, what's the matter now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought, m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nulla dies sine linea." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess, father, all is well, seeing you thus merry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is indeed, son Roper, returns father steadilie, repeating thereupon, once or twice, this phrase," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All is well." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Justum, ac tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Impavidum ferient ruinæ;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with y^e glory which shall be rev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the mass, master More, 'tis perilous striving with princes. I could wish you, as a friend, to incline to the king's pleasure; for, indignatio principis mors est." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that all? says father;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank our Lord, the field is won!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, give over weeping, dearest mother; 'twill do neither him, you, nor us anie goode.... What was your first speech of him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, my first speech, sweetheart, was, 'What, my goodness, Mr. More! I marvell how that you, who were always co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think, most dear father, doth comfort us at Chelsea, during this your absence? Surelie, the remembrance of your manner of life among us, your holy conversation, your wholesome counsells, your examples of virtue, of which there is hope that they do not onlie persevere...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell him, dear Meg, tell him ... 'twas never soe sad to me to be sick ... and that I hope ... I pray ... the time may come ..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look you run us not aground," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Meg, you are getting freckled: soe that made us bothe laugh. He sayd," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shoulde get some freckle-water of the lady that sent me here; depend on it, she hath washes and tinctures in plenty; and after all, Meg, she'll come to the s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "quoth he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe, Meg, they that have put me here ween they have done me a high displeasure; but I assure thee on my faith, mine own good daughter, that if it had not beene for my wife, and you, my dear good children, I would faine h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And surelie, Meg, quoth he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wishes never filled a sack. I make it my businesse, Meg, to wish as little as I can, except that I were better and wiser. You fancy these four walls lonesome; how oft, dost thou suppose, I here receive Plato ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Manual." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mankind are disposed to remember the _abuse_ rather than the _utility_ of pursuits in which few are deeply interested. And in the ridicule which the enthusiastic zeal of bibliomaniacs has cast on bibliography, they lose sight of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bibliomania, says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Copying excited insensibly a love of quiet, domestic order, and seriousness. I am willing to admit every degree of merit to the manual dexterity of the cloistered student. I admire his snow-white vellum missals, embla...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "yclept Robert Burton. He gave a multitude of books to the Bodleian Library. This original, amusing, and _now popular_ author was an arrant book-hunter--a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Burton's constant companion was, we read, the eccentric" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Small-coal. Woollaston's attention was attracted, and he recognized in the voice that of his musical acquaintance Britton, whom he had never seen in the pursuit of his ordinary trade. The artist at once beckoned Britton in, and there and then took his portrait as he sat, a verit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crude, undigested, half-devoured, On groaning shelves they're thrown; Such manuscripts no eye could read, Nor hand write, but his own." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the connection in this book is owing to the book-binder." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An apothecary! exclaimed the master of hounds." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Heaven! men's impudence every day becomes more audacious! Why, it would not surprise me after this, that an attorney should join our meeting next. Come, it is time that this dealer in dr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus; which, according to Irish translation, meaneth, that a man must be articled for five years to an attorney. As regards play, we hold a different opinion, and believe that the course of demoralization may be more rapidly effected by the _alea damnosa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cato the sententious Lent his fair lady to his friend Hortensius." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Joe" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good heaven! exclaimed the citizen;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Drunk! returned his companion;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Naps! play! exclaimed the sick man with a stare;" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have done for the ----, using an epithet too disgusting to be named. He, and the well-selected seconds, hurry off, without even taking a parting glance at the prostrate victim. The surgeon, with his friends, lugs the dead body into a cab. An inquest is held--" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I watched him--saw him join the strangers, and the whole party turned into a rope-yard. I rose from the beam--shouldered my satchel, and as I passed the place where the gentlemen had disappeared, I looked through the open gate. Although not more than three or four minutes had el...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "More Irish and less nice" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heated with wine, and exasperated by what he conceived a professional insult, Campbell left the table, hastened to his apartments, loaded his pistols, returned, sent for Captain Boyd, brought him to an inner mess-room, closed the door, and without the presence of a friend or wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "pleaded" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the usual form--the fact of the homicide was admitted--and a number of officers, high in rank, attended, and gave the prisoner the highest character for humanity. I did not hear the evidence, and when I came into the court-ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord have mercy on your soul! issued from the ashy lips of the stern old man, a groan of horror burst from the auditory, and the Highland soldiers, who thronged the court, ejaculated a wild" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He died as sinful man should die Without parade--without display," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, he exclaimed, when assured that otherwise his case was hopeless," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor fellow, he said in a whisper, to his fair companion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Campbell, said the lady," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush, he replied, as he gently forced her out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you have me ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in Egypt, formed a semicircle round the prison. In the north of Ireland, all is decorously conducted. When he appeared, a deep and solemn silence awed the multitude; and until he addressed the Highlanders in Gaelic, a whisper might have been heard in the crowd. To the simple req...