Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue2 · Data Studio

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45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The trouble, then, in finding employment for women lies deeper than the purses or consciences of the employers; it lies in the want of education in women; the want of _education_, I say,--meaning by education that which fits a woman for practical and profitable employment in lif...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I remember a young lady friend of mine, attending a celebrated boarding-school, boarded in the family of a woman who had never been to school longer than was necessary to learn to read and write, yet who was a perfect cyclopedia of general information. The young scholar used to ...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "For a long while nothing was talked of, written of, thought of, in teachers' meetings, conventions, and assemblies, but the neglected state of female education; and the whole circle of the arts and sciences was suddenly introduced into our free-school system, from which needle-w...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Both these girls had had a good free-school education, and could read any amount of novels, write a tolerable letter, but had not learned anything with sufficient accuracy to fit them for teachers. They were pretty, and their destiny was to marry and lie a dead weight on the han...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The defect in the late efforts to push on female education is, that it has been for her merely general, and that it has left out and excluded all that is professional; and she undertakes the essential duties of womanhood, when they do devolve on her, without any adequate prepara...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the same manner the care and nursing of young children and the tending of the sick might be made the subject of lectures. Every woman ought to have some general principles to guide her with regard to what is to be done in case of the various accidents that may befall either c...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When housekeeping becomes an enthusiasm, and its study and practice a fashion, then we shall have in America that class of persons to rely on for help in household labors who are now going to factories, to printing-offices, to every kind of toil, forgetful of the best life and s...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are all poor trash, miserable dogs together," } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us also go, that we may die with him." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have been saying that, about our going to ruin, every time you have taken tea here for four years past, said Jennie;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For my part, said my wife," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "As to advancement in morals, there never was so much intemperance in our people before, and the papers are full of accounts of frauds, defalcations, forgeries, robberies, assassinations, and arsons. Against this tide of corruption the various organized denominations of religion ...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Already the lazy whites, who never lifted a hand in any useful employment, begin to raise the cry that 'niggers won't work'; and I suspect the cry may not be without reason. Industrious citizens can never be made in a community where the higher class think useful labor a disgrac...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such testimonies gem the newspapers like stars." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Newspapers of your way of thinking, very likely, said Theophilus;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Probably both are true, said I," } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are all the young girls looking for in marriage? Some man with money enough to save them from taking any care or having any trouble in domestic life, enabling them, like the lilies of the field, to rival Solomon in all his glory, while they toil not, neither do they spin; a...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "All through free society, employers and employed are at incessant feud; and the more free and enlightened the society, the more bitter the feud. The standing complaint of life in America is the badness of servants; and England, which always follows at a certain rate behind us in...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I admit freely that we men are to blame for most of the faults of our fair nobility. There is plenty of heroism, abundance of energy, and love of noble endeavor lying dormant in these sheltered and petted daughters of the better classes; but _we_ keep it down and smother it. Fat...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Furthermore, the history of the late war has shown them capable of every form of heroic endeavor. We have had hundreds of Florence Nightingales, and an amount of real hard work has been done by female hands not inferior to that performed by men in the camp and field, and enough ...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Biddy and her mistress are two human beings, with the same human wants. Both want to escape trouble, to make their life comfortable and easy, with the least outlay of expense. Biddy's capital is her muscles and sinews; and she wants to get as many greenbacks in exchange for them...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When people see all these things, and feel all the inconveniences of them, I don't wonder that they are tempted not to like democracy, and to feel as if aristocratic institutions made a more agreeable state of society. It is not such a blank, bald, downright piece of brutal self...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But for this transition period, which is wearing out the life of so many women, and making so many households uncomfortable, I have some alleviating suggestions, which I shall give in my next chapter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Papa, do you see what the Evening P...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He says that the New England standard of excellence as applied to woman has been a mistaken one; and, in consequence, though the girls are beautiful, the matrons are faded, overworked, and uninteresting; and that such a state of society tends to immorality, because, when wives a...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And pray, said Theophilus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know. I haven't seen it near enough to consider. It is because I know the difficulty of its attainment that I have no present thoughts of marriage. Marriage is to me in the bluest of all blue distances...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well now, say what you will, said Rudolph," } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The great danger to the beauty of American women does not lie, as the writer of the Post contends, in an overworking of the physical system which shall stunt and deform; on the contrary, American women of the comfortable classes are in danger of a loss of physical beauty from th...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not fear that women of such sense and energy will listen to the sophistries which would persuade them that elegant imbecility and inefficiency are charms of cultivated womanhood or ingredients in the poetry of life. She alone can keep the poetry and beauty of married life w...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the time arrives that such a girl comes to a house of her own, she comes to it as unskilled in all household lore, with muscles as incapable of domestic labor, and nerves as sensitive, as if she had been leading the most luxurious, do-nothing, fashionable life. How differen...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The young American girl of our times is a creature who has not a particle of vitality to spare,--no reserved stock of force to draw upon in cases of family exigency. She is exquisitely strung, she is cultivated, she is refined; but she is too nervous, too wiry, too sensitive,--s...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We should be better instructed, and consider that Italy does us a favor, in sending us specimens, not only of higher styles of musical art, but of a warmer, richer, and more abundant womanly life. The magnificent voice is only in keeping with the magnificent proportions of the s...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Since the war has thrown the whole South open to the competition of free labor, the demand for workers is doubled and trebled. Manufactories of all sorts are enlarging their borders, increasing their machinery, and calling for more hands. Every article of living is demanded with...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "All of which I humbly submit to the good sense and enterprise of American readers and workers." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, I thank you," } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Nation" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you won't let _me_ have a good time, neither shall you." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harpers' Magazine" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "sermons on ventilation and fresh air go by them as an idle song." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see but we are well enough, and we never took much pains about these things. There's air enough gets into houses, of course. What with doors opening and windows oc...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He shall change our _vile_ bodies, that they may be fashioned like his glorious body." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, said Marianne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For my part, I hate parties, said Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They put your house all out of order, give all the women a sick-headache, and all the men an indigestion; you never see anyb...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, that Mrs. Easygo really does like the society of human beings. She is genuinely and heartily social; and, in consequence, though she has very limited means, and no money to spend in giving great entertainments, her domestic establishment is a sort of social exchange...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But don't you think, said my wife," } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The English breakfast is an institution growing in favor here, and rightfully, too; for a party of fresh, good-natured, well-dressed people, assembled at breakfast on a summer morning, is as nearly perfect a form of reunion as can be devised. All are in full strength from their ...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, continued Bob Stephens," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Robert, said my wife," } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The legislators of Europe wished nothing more than to bring up a people who would be content with amusements, and not ask after their rights or think too closely how they were governed. 'Gild the dome of the Invalides,' was Napoleon's scornful prescription, when he heard the Par...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Prussia, under the reign of Frederick William II., when one good, hard-handed man governed the whole country like a strict schoolmaster, the public amusements for the people were made such as to present a model for all states. The theatres were strictly supervised, and actors...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the Fourth of July, our city fathers do in a certain dim wise perceive that the public owes some attempt at amusement to its children, and they vote large sums, principally expended in bell-ringing, cannons, and fireworks. The side-walks are witness to the number who fall vic...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is melancholy to see that, while parents, teachers, and churches make no provision for boys in the way of amusement, the world, the flesh, and the Devil are incessantly busy and active in giving it to them. There are ninepin-alleys, with cigars and a bar. There are billiard-s...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "John Newton had a very wise saying: 'Here is a man trying to fill a bushel with chaff. Now if I fill it with wheat first, it is better than to fight him.' This apothegm contains in it the whole of what I would say on the subject of amusements." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "For my part, said little Humming-Bird," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite worn out with sewing; the fashions are all _so_ different from what they were last year, that everything has to be made over." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it dreadfu...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, really, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sure, said Humming-Bird," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Betsey Titcomb is doing it, I suppose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aunt Betsey! said Humming-Bird," }, { "from...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Viewed in this light, even the small, frittering cares of woman's life--the attention to buttons, trimmings, thread, and sewing-silk--may be an expression of their patriotism and their religion. A noble-hearted woman puts a noble meaning into even the commonplace details of life...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, a resistance founded on an over-statement is constantly tending to reaction. People always have a tendency to begin thinking for themselves; and when they so think, they perceive that a good and wise God would not have framed our bodies with such exquisite care only to corr...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was John the Baptist, and not the Messiah, who dwelt in the wilderness and wore garments of camel's hair; and Jesus was commented on, not for his asceticism, but for his cheerful, social acceptance of the average innocent wants and enjoyments of humanity. 'The Son of man came...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the third place, there is nothing in itself wrong, or unworthy a rational being, in a certain degree of attention to the fashion of society in our costume. It is not wrong to be annoyed at unnecessary departures from the commonly received practices of good society in the matt...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "O now, Mr. Crowfield, you frighten me, said Humming-Bird." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm so afraid, do you know, that I am doing exactly that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And so am I, said Pheasant;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But ...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, it's the fashion, papa! Everybody wears it so." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, papa, how do you like us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very charming," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I told you, girls, that you could convert him to the fashions, if he should once see you in party trim." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The next source of beauty in dress is the impression of truthfulness and reality. It is a well-known principle of the fine arts, in all their branches, that all shams and mere pretences are to be rejected,--a truth which Ruskin has shown with the full lustre of his many-colored ...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to build a cathedral one of these days," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That picture is one of the most poetic things you have among your house ornaments, said Rudolph." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Its original is the world's chief beauty,--...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a good old age, Death, the friend, came and opened the door of this mortal state, and a great soul, that had served a long apprenticeship to little things, went forth into the joy of its Lord; a life of self-sacrifice and self-abnegation passed into a life of endless rest." ...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He fell instantly, gave a peculiar smile and look, and then closed his eyes. We laid him down gently at the foot of a large tree. I crossed his hands over his breast, closed his eyelids down, but the smile was still on his face. I wrapt him in his tent, spread my pocket-handkerc...
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He died for his country." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and passion, by thy precious death and burial!" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, why hast thou forsaken me? came the calm," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is finished ; pledge to us all that our" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is finished" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What moved me was no argument, nor any spoken reproof, but simply that divine image of the old Baron walking before my soul. That life was an argument always present to me, and which I never could answer; and so I became a Christian." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "House of Mercy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it not beautiful that I can sing so?" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints!" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "SAMUEL RAYMOND." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A great many have begun to smoke, but I shall not do it without your permission, though I think it does a great deal of good." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I prayed God that he would watch over me, and if I fell, receive my soul in heaven; and I also prayed that I might not forget the cause I was fighting for, and turn my back in fear." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would rather be carried out in that dead-cart!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I was not brought up to that!" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to die. Go tell my father I am ready to die, for I die for God and my country," } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just so died my son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So died my brother!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So died my husband!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So died my father!" } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor." } ]
45415	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?" } ]
815487	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That, my father said," } ]
170304	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "New America, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spiritual Wives," } ]
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rover Boys in the jungle, is the third story of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rover Boys Series, and while a complete tale in itself, forms a companion story to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Rover Boys at School and" }, { "from": "...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Back to Putnam Hall again, boys! Hurrah!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, back again, Tom, and glad of it, returned Dick Rover." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can tell you, the academy is getting to be a regular second home." }, { "from": "...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rover Boys at School and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Rover Boys on the Ocean," } ]
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The boys are all right, even if they do love to play pranks, was Randolph Rover's comment, when he heard of the promotions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I trust they improve their time during the term to come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are g...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure I can't guess," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like as not he became scared to death. I suppose you'll be satisfied if he keeps away from Dora and her mother in the future?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; I never want to set eyes on him agai...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young gentlemen, I will introduce to you several who will join your ranks for this season," } ]
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll wager the Dutch boy is full of fun, whispered Sam to Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can see it in his eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like the looks of that Jim Caven, returned Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "H...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mine fadder vos von soldier py der Cherman army, said Hans Mueller." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dot's vy he sent me py a military academy ven we come py dis country." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Glad to know you intend to help us fight the Indians,...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Putnam Hall Series, the first volume of which is entitled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Putnam Hall Cadets." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we can't expect to beat always, said Tom, who played quarterback on the Putnam team." }, { ...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can tell you, if a fellow had time he could reduce kite-flying to a regular science," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Dick, don't give us any more science! cried Sam." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We get enough of science from, Uncle Randolph, with...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad he is not with us, said Dick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I declare, for some reason, I can't bear to have him around." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nor I, returned Frank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's queer, but he gives ...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gracious, but it is blowing!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sam, have you a good strong cord on your kite?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The strongest I could get, answered the youngest Rover." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess it is st...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mine cracious, look at dot! burst out Hans Mueller." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mine Gretchen kite vos busted up--und I spent me feefteen cents on him alreety!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, Hans, said Dick." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how is your mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is much better, replied Dora," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does she ever mention Josiah Crabtree?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She mentioned him once. She said that she had dream...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Run her up, Fred! You can win if you try!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Play out a bit more, Sam; you haven't given your kite all the slack she wants," } ]
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a dandy for flying, panted Tom, who was holding his kite with all the strength he possessed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something must give way soon," } ]
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Torn! Tom! What a sight! burst out Nellie Laning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You should have brought a stronger cord." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I had I'd a-gone up in the clouds, answered Tom ruefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got the bushes, but I can't hold on long! he panted, as Dick came close." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Help me, quick!" } ]
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Catch the rock--anything! cried the older brother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you don't you'll be killed!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Save me! was all poor Sam could say." }, { "fro...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't I cut the line with this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Yes; cut it! moaned Sam." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my wrist is almost cut in two!" } ]
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank Heaven you cut the line, Dora!" } ]
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't mind me--I am all right, Dick, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go care for poor Sam. See how his wrist is bleeding! Oh, how dreadful!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here is my handkerchief; he had better bind it up with that," }, { ...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the spot where they abducted me, shivered Dora, as they came to the old boathouse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, what a dreadful time that was, to be sure!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe our enemies will bother you any more,...
5770	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was a clam to come up here, when there is no real need for it, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two to one, eh? Well, I reckon I can put up a pretty stiff fight if it comes to the worst." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He means to give us as...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The trouble, then, in finding employment for women lies deeper than the purses or consciences of the employers; it lies in the want of education in women; the want of _education_, I say,--meaning by education that which fits a woman for practical and profitable employment in lif...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I remember a young lady friend of mine, attending a celebrated boarding-school, boarded in the family of a woman who had never been to school longer than was necessary to learn to read and write, yet who was a perfect cyclopedia of general information. The young scholar used to ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For a long while nothing was talked of, written of, thought of, in teachers' meetings, conventions, and assemblies, but the neglected state of female education; and the whole circle of the arts and sciences was suddenly introduced into our free-school system, from which needle-w...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Both these girls had had a good free-school education, and could read any amount of novels, write a tolerable letter, but had not learned anything with sufficient accuracy to fit them for teachers. They were pretty, and their destiny was to marry and lie a dead weight on the han...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The defect in the late efforts to push on female education is, that it has been for her merely general, and that it has left out and excluded all that is professional; and she undertakes the essential duties of womanhood, when they do devolve on her, without any adequate prepara...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the same manner the care and nursing of young children and the tending of the sick might be made the subject of lectures. Every woman ought to have some general principles to guide her with regard to what is to be done in case of the various accidents that may befall either c...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When housekeeping becomes an enthusiasm, and its study and practice a fashion, then we shall have in America that class of persons to rely on for help in household labors who are now going to factories, to printing-offices, to every kind of toil, forgetful of the best life and s...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are all poor trash, miserable dogs together," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us also go, that we may die with him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have been saying that, about our going to ruin, every time you have taken tea here for four years past, said Jennie;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For my part, said my wife," }, { "from": "gpt", ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As to advancement in morals, there never was so much intemperance in our people before, and the papers are full of accounts of frauds, defalcations, forgeries, robberies, assassinations, and arsons. Against this tide of corruption the various organized denominations of religion ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Already the lazy whites, who never lifted a hand in any useful employment, begin to raise the cry that 'niggers won't work'; and I suspect the cry may not be without reason. Industrious citizens can never be made in a community where the higher class think useful labor a disgrac...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such testimonies gem the newspapers like stars." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Newspapers of your way of thinking, very likely, said Theophilus;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Probably both are true, said I," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are all the young girls looking for in marriage? Some man with money enough to save them from taking any care or having any trouble in domestic life, enabling them, like the lilies of the field, to rival Solomon in all his glory, while they toil not, neither do they spin; a...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All through free society, employers and employed are at incessant feud; and the more free and enlightened the society, the more bitter the feud. The standing complaint of life in America is the badness of servants; and England, which always follows at a certain rate behind us in...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I admit freely that we men are to blame for most of the faults of our fair nobility. There is plenty of heroism, abundance of energy, and love of noble endeavor lying dormant in these sheltered and petted daughters of the better classes; but _we_ keep it down and smother it. Fat...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Furthermore, the history of the late war has shown them capable of every form of heroic endeavor. We have had hundreds of Florence Nightingales, and an amount of real hard work has been done by female hands not inferior to that performed by men in the camp and field, and enough ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Biddy and her mistress are two human beings, with the same human wants. Both want to escape trouble, to make their life comfortable and easy, with the least outlay of expense. Biddy's capital is her muscles and sinews; and she wants to get as many greenbacks in exchange for them...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When people see all these things, and feel all the inconveniences of them, I don't wonder that they are tempted not to like democracy, and to feel as if aristocratic institutions made a more agreeable state of society. It is not such a blank, bald, downright piece of brutal self...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But for this transition period, which is wearing out the life of so many women, and making so many households uncomfortable, I have some alleviating suggestions, which I shall give in my next chapter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Papa, do you see what the Evening P...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He says that the New England standard of excellence as applied to woman has been a mistaken one; and, in consequence, though the girls are beautiful, the matrons are faded, overworked, and uninteresting; and that such a state of society tends to immorality, because, when wives a...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And pray, said Theophilus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know. I haven't seen it near enough to consider. It is because I know the difficulty of its attainment that I have no present thoughts of marriage. Marriage is to me in the bluest of all blue distances...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well now, say what you will, said Rudolph," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The great danger to the beauty of American women does not lie, as the writer of the Post contends, in an overworking of the physical system which shall stunt and deform; on the contrary, American women of the comfortable classes are in danger of a loss of physical beauty from th...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not fear that women of such sense and energy will listen to the sophistries which would persuade them that elegant imbecility and inefficiency are charms of cultivated womanhood or ingredients in the poetry of life. She alone can keep the poetry and beauty of married life w...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the time arrives that such a girl comes to a house of her own, she comes to it as unskilled in all household lore, with muscles as incapable of domestic labor, and nerves as sensitive, as if she had been leading the most luxurious, do-nothing, fashionable life. How differen...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The young American girl of our times is a creature who has not a particle of vitality to spare,--no reserved stock of force to draw upon in cases of family exigency. She is exquisitely strung, she is cultivated, she is refined; but she is too nervous, too wiry, too sensitive,--s...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We should be better instructed, and consider that Italy does us a favor, in sending us specimens, not only of higher styles of musical art, but of a warmer, richer, and more abundant womanly life. The magnificent voice is only in keeping with the magnificent proportions of the s...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Since the war has thrown the whole South open to the competition of free labor, the demand for workers is doubled and trebled. Manufactories of all sorts are enlarging their borders, increasing their machinery, and calling for more hands. Every article of living is demanded with...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All of which I humbly submit to the good sense and enterprise of American readers and workers." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, I thank you," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Nation" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you won't let _me_ have a good time, neither shall you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harpers' Magazine" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "sermons on ventilation and fresh air go by them as an idle song." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see but we are well enough, and we never took much pains about these things. There's air enough gets into houses, of course. What with doors opening and windows oc...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He shall change our _vile_ bodies, that they may be fashioned like his glorious body." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, said Marianne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For my part, I hate parties, said Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They put your house all out of order, give all the women a sick-headache, and all the men an indigestion; you never see anyb...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fact is, that Mrs. Easygo really does like the society of human beings. She is genuinely and heartily social; and, in consequence, though she has very limited means, and no money to spend in giving great entertainments, her domestic establishment is a sort of social exchange...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But don't you think, said my wife," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The English breakfast is an institution growing in favor here, and rightfully, too; for a party of fresh, good-natured, well-dressed people, assembled at breakfast on a summer morning, is as nearly perfect a form of reunion as can be devised. All are in full strength from their ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, continued Bob Stephens," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Robert, said my wife," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The legislators of Europe wished nothing more than to bring up a people who would be content with amusements, and not ask after their rights or think too closely how they were governed. 'Gild the dome of the Invalides,' was Napoleon's scornful prescription, when he heard the Par...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Prussia, under the reign of Frederick William II., when one good, hard-handed man governed the whole country like a strict schoolmaster, the public amusements for the people were made such as to present a model for all states. The theatres were strictly supervised, and actors...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the Fourth of July, our city fathers do in a certain dim wise perceive that the public owes some attempt at amusement to its children, and they vote large sums, principally expended in bell-ringing, cannons, and fireworks. The side-walks are witness to the number who fall vic...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is melancholy to see that, while parents, teachers, and churches make no provision for boys in the way of amusement, the world, the flesh, and the Devil are incessantly busy and active in giving it to them. There are ninepin-alleys, with cigars and a bar. There are billiard-s...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John Newton had a very wise saying: 'Here is a man trying to fill a bushel with chaff. Now if I fill it with wheat first, it is better than to fight him.' This apothegm contains in it the whole of what I would say on the subject of amusements." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For my part, said little Humming-Bird," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm quite worn out with sewing; the fashions are all _so_ different from what they were last year, that everything has to be made over." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it dreadfu...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, really, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sure, said Humming-Bird," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Betsey Titcomb is doing it, I suppose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aunt Betsey! said Humming-Bird," }, { "from...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Viewed in this light, even the small, frittering cares of woman's life--the attention to buttons, trimmings, thread, and sewing-silk--may be an expression of their patriotism and their religion. A noble-hearted woman puts a noble meaning into even the commonplace details of life...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, a resistance founded on an over-statement is constantly tending to reaction. People always have a tendency to begin thinking for themselves; and when they so think, they perceive that a good and wise God would not have framed our bodies with such exquisite care only to corr...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was John the Baptist, and not the Messiah, who dwelt in the wilderness and wore garments of camel's hair; and Jesus was commented on, not for his asceticism, but for his cheerful, social acceptance of the average innocent wants and enjoyments of humanity. 'The Son of man came...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the third place, there is nothing in itself wrong, or unworthy a rational being, in a certain degree of attention to the fashion of society in our costume. It is not wrong to be annoyed at unnecessary departures from the commonly received practices of good society in the matt...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O now, Mr. Crowfield, you frighten me, said Humming-Bird." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm so afraid, do you know, that I am doing exactly that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And so am I, said Pheasant;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, it's the fashion, papa! Everybody wears it so." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, papa, how do you like us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very charming," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I told you, girls, that you could convert him to the fashions, if he should once see you in party trim." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The next source of beauty in dress is the impression of truthfulness and reality. It is a well-known principle of the fine arts, in all their branches, that all shams and mere pretences are to be rejected,--a truth which Ruskin has shown with the full lustre of his many-colored ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to build a cathedral one of these days," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That picture is one of the most poetic things you have among your house ornaments, said Rudolph." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Its original is the world's chief beauty,--...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a good old age, Death, the friend, came and opened the door of this mortal state, and a great soul, that had served a long apprenticeship to little things, went forth into the joy of its Lord; a life of self-sacrifice and self-abnegation passed into a life of endless rest." ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He fell instantly, gave a peculiar smile and look, and then closed his eyes. We laid him down gently at the foot of a large tree. I crossed his hands over his breast, closed his eyelids down, but the smile was still on his face. I wrapt him in his tent, spread my pocket-handkerc...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He died for his country." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and passion, by thy precious death and burial!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, why hast thou forsaken me? came the calm," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is finished ; pledge to us all that our" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is finished" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What moved me was no argument, nor any spoken reproof, but simply that divine image of the old Baron walking before my soul. That life was an argument always present to me, and which I never could answer; and so I became a Christian." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "House of Mercy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it not beautiful that I can sing so?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SAMUEL RAYMOND." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A great many have begun to smoke, but I shall not do it without your permission, though I think it does a great deal of good." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I prayed God that he would watch over me, and if I fell, receive my soul in heaven; and I also prayed that I might not forget the cause I was fighting for, and turn my back in fear." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would rather be carried out in that dead-cart!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I was not brought up to that!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to die. Go tell my father I am ready to die, for I die for God and my country," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just so died my son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So died my brother!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So died my husband!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So died my father!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That, my father said," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New America, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spiritual Wives," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rover Boys in the jungle, is the third story of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rover Boys Series, and while a complete tale in itself, forms a companion story to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Rover Boys at School and" }, { "from": "...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Back to Putnam Hall again, boys! Hurrah!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, back again, Tom, and glad of it, returned Dick Rover." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can tell you, the academy is getting to be a regular second home." }, { "from": "...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rover Boys at School and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Rover Boys on the Ocean," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The boys are all right, even if they do love to play pranks, was Randolph Rover's comment, when he heard of the promotions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I trust they improve their time during the term to come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are g...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure I can't guess," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like as not he became scared to death. I suppose you'll be satisfied if he keeps away from Dora and her mother in the future?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; I never want to set eyes on him agai...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young gentlemen, I will introduce to you several who will join your ranks for this season," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll wager the Dutch boy is full of fun, whispered Sam to Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can see it in his eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like the looks of that Jim Caven, returned Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "H...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mine fadder vos von soldier py der Cherman army, said Hans Mueller." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dot's vy he sent me py a military academy ven we come py dis country." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Glad to know you intend to help us fight the Indians,...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Putnam Hall Series, the first volume of which is entitled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Putnam Hall Cadets." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we can't expect to beat always, said Tom, who played quarterback on the Putnam team." }, { ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can tell you, if a fellow had time he could reduce kite-flying to a regular science," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Dick, don't give us any more science! cried Sam." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We get enough of science from, Uncle Randolph, with...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad he is not with us, said Dick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I declare, for some reason, I can't bear to have him around." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nor I, returned Frank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's queer, but he gives ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gracious, but it is blowing!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sam, have you a good strong cord on your kite?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The strongest I could get, answered the youngest Rover." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess it is st...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mine cracious, look at dot! burst out Hans Mueller." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mine Gretchen kite vos busted up--und I spent me feefteen cents on him alreety!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, Hans, said Dick." }, { "from": "gpt", ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how is your mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is much better, replied Dora," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does she ever mention Josiah Crabtree?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She mentioned him once. She said that she had dream...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Run her up, Fred! You can win if you try!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Play out a bit more, Sam; you haven't given your kite all the slack she wants," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a dandy for flying, panted Tom, who was holding his kite with all the strength he possessed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something must give way soon," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Torn! Tom! What a sight! burst out Nellie Laning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You should have brought a stronger cord." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I had I'd a-gone up in the clouds, answered Tom ruefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got the bushes, but I can't hold on long! he panted, as Dick came close." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Help me, quick!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Catch the rock--anything! cried the older brother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you don't you'll be killed!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Save me! was all poor Sam could say." }, { "fro...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't I cut the line with this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Yes; cut it! moaned Sam." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my wrist is almost cut in two!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank Heaven you cut the line, Dora!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't mind me--I am all right, Dick, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go care for poor Sam. See how his wrist is bleeding! Oh, how dreadful!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here is my handkerchief; he had better bind it up with that," }, { ...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the spot where they abducted me, shivered Dora, as they came to the old boathouse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, what a dreadful time that was, to be sure!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe our enemies will bother you any more,...

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was a clam to come up here, when there is no real need for it, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two to one, eh? Well, I reckon I can put up a pretty stiff fight if it comes to the worst." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He means to give us as...