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18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never was so hungry in all my days,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those two men look like . . . look like. . . . They _are_ Grampa and Daddy. But what have they done with the car?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's the car?"
},
{
"from": ... |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sorry, folks, but you'll have to move on. Against regulations, this is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're Americans, ain't we? Grandpa blustered, shaken with anxiety and anger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't shove us off the earth."
},
... |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I bet you a nickel they're Christian Centerers!"
}
] |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I've heard of you from Miss Pinkerton, said one young woman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She said you were the kind of people who deserved a better chance. Maybe I can help you get one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Skedaddle, young-ones!"
}
... |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Centerers"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We got them on long distance, and it's all right!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's all right?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A real nice place to stay in the grape country, Grandpa said quickly."... |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, even if she doesn't, she does the best she can, he sobbed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't she one of the family?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, well . . . !"
}
] |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's . . . real sightly country, said Grandma, who felt much better after her rest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If only a body could settle down, I can't figure any place much nicer. Them trees now, with the sun slanting through.--We ain't stopping here?"
}
] |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A sitting room! she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A sitting room! Seems like we were real folks again, just for a little while. Grampa, you fetch in the clock and set it on that shelf, will you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tick-tock! Tick-tock... |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I . . . I wish we didn't have to move on again!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a pretty good set-up, Grandpa agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good school over yonder; and a church--and big enough garden for all our garden sass and to can some... |
18681 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maaaaaaa!"
}
] |
777744 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How? Explain it."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gulistan, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rose Garden, is the mature work of his life-time, and he lived to the age of one hundred and eight. The Rose Garden was an actual thing, and was part of the little hermitage, to which he retired, after the vicissitudes and ... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rose Garden,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gulistan is divided into eight chapters, each dealing with a specific subject and partaking of the nature of an essay: although these chapters are composed of disjointed paragraphs, generally beginning with an aphorism or a... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rose Garden may remind us of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Essays of Bacon, which were published in their complete form the year before the great English philosopher died. Both works cover a large area of thought and experience; but the Englishman is clear, cold... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The king asked, saying,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does he say? One of the Vizirs (or nobles in attendance), and a well-disposed man, made answer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my lord! he is exp... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot be that man whose back thou mayest see on the day of battle, but am him thou mayest descry amidst the thick of it, with my head covered with dust and blood; for he that engages in the contest sports with his own blood, but he who flees from it sports with the blood of a... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This boy has not yet tasted the fruit of the garden of life, nor enjoyed the fragrance of the flowers of youth: such is my confidence in the generous disposition of his Majesty that it will favor a devoted servant by sparing his blood. The king turned his face away from this spe... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you so far comprehend that Feridún had no revenue, domain, or army, and how the kingdom came to be confirmed with him? He answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you have heard, a body of people collected about him from attachment, and gave their assistance t... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What fault did you find with your father's ministers that you ordered them into confinement? He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw no fault that might deserve imprisonment; yet I perceived that any reverence for me makes a slight impression on their minds,... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is base and ungrateful, mean and disreputable who, on a trifling change of circumstances, can desert his old master and forget his obligation of many years' employment. He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were I to speak out, I swear by generosity you would... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With the wise it is deemed preferable to be out of office than to remain in place.--Such as sat within the cell of retirement blunted the teeth of dogs, and shut the mouths of mankind; they destroyed their writings, and broke their writing reeds, and escaped the lash and venom o... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To any superiority my master possesses over me, he is beholden to my reverence of his seniority, and in virtue of his tutorage; otherwise I am not inferior in power, and am his equal in skill. This want of respect displeased the king. He ordered a wrestling match to be held, and... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard that God, glorious and great, has removed from this world a certain man who was your enemy. He said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you had any intelligence that he has overlooked me? In the death of a rival I have no room for exultation, since my l... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is rare and inconsistent with the generous dispositions of dervishes to turn their faces from a good-fellowship with the poor, and to deny them its benefits, for on my part I feel such a zeal and good-will, that in the service of the liberal I am likely to prove rather an act... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to my ablutions;"
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let there be thanksgiving to a Deity of majesty and glory that I am not forbid the benefits of dervishes, notwithstanding I am in appearance excluded from their society; and I am instructed by this narration, and others like me may profit by its moral during their remaining live... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O father, perhaps you ate little or nothing at the feast of the king? He answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In his presence I ate scarce anything that could answer its purpose! Then retorted the boy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Repeat also your... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not an individual of these will raise his head that he may perform his genuflections, or ritual of prayer; but they are all so sound asleep, that you might conclude they were dead. He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O emanation of your father, you had also be... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O brother, holy Mecca is ahead, and the profane robber behind; if you come forward you escape, but if you stay here you die!"
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why are you so grateful? He answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God be praised that I am overtaken with misfortune and not with sin! Were that beloved friend, God, to give me over to death, take heed, and think not that I should be solicitous about life. I would... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am neither mounted on a camel nor a mule under a burden. I am neither the lord of vassals nor the vassal of a lord. I think not of present sorrows or past vanities, but breathe the breath of ease and live the life of freedom!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O dervis... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Direct some maxims of wisdom and admonition to them; perhaps they may restore a part of our goods; for it were a pity that articles of such value should be cast away. He answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It were a pity to cast away the admonitions of wisdom up... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the day of thy prosperity remember the bankrupt and needy, for by visiting the hearts of the poor with charity thou shalt divert calamity. When the beggar solicits alms from thee, bestow it with a good grace; otherwise the tyrant may come and take it by force."
},
{
"... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had he eaten half a loaf of bread, and gone to sleep, he would have done a more meritorious act."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am much troubled by the tongues of mankind. The holy man wept, and answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can you be sufficiently grateful for this blessing, that you are better than they represent you?--How often wilt thou call aloud saying, The malignant an... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A certain person has borne testimony against my character on the score of lasciviousness. He answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shame him by your continence.--Be thou virtuously disposed, that the detractor may not have it in his power to indulge his malignity.... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What condition was that? He replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I remarked the nightingales that they had come to carol in the groves, the pheasants to prattle on the mountains, the frogs to croak in the pools, and the wild beasts to roar in the forests, and thou... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanksgiving be to a Deity of majesty and glory that lofty fortune succored you and prosperity was your guide, till roses issued from your thorns and the thorns were extracted from your feet, and till you arrived at this elevated rank!--_Along with hardship there is ease; or, to... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Notwithstanding all these charms which the sun commands, we have never heard of anybody that has fallen in love with him! He answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is because he is seen every day, unless during the winter, when he is veiled (in the clouds), and ... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is this? and how came you to be thus occupied? I replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can I say?--I was flying from mankind into the forests and mountains, for my resource was in God and in none else. Fancy to thyself what my condition must now be, when f... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you not the fellow whom my father redeemed from the captivity of the Franks for ten dinars? I replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I am that same he delivered from captivity for ten dinars, and enslaved me with you for a hundred! I have heard that a rever... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ringlets of the lovely are a chain on the feet of reason, and a snare for the bird of wisdom."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever he had laid up from theologician, sage, or saint, or of recondite knowledge from the eloquent and pure of spirit, now that he had stooped to mix with a vile world, like the feet of a fly he got entangled in its honey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In this w... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thus it has befallen me. He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my son! the patched cloak of dervishes is the garment of resignation; whosoever wears this garb, and cannot bear with disappointment, is a hypocrite, and to him our cloth is forbidden.--A vast and ... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you not get him to prescribe for your son-in-law? He answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because I am afraid he may recover his sight, and repudiate my daughter; for--'the husband of an ugly woman should be blind.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have reached a sovereignty, and you remain thus in a state of poverty. He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O brother! I am all the more grateful for the bounty of a Most High God, whose name was glorified, that I have found the heritage of the prophets--name... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I understand that you make a practice of eating to excess; and that any restraint on your appetite, namely, this vow, is weaker than a hair, and this voraciousness, as you indulge it, would break an iron chain; but the day must come when it will destroy you."
},
{
"fr... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not know him. The other answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will introduce you; and having taken his hand, he brought him to that person's dwelling. The dervish beheld a man with a hanging lip, and sitting in sullen discontent. He said nothing, and return... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On one occasion I had missed my way in the desert, and having no road-provision left, I had given myself up for lost, when all at once I found a bag of pearls. Never shall I forget that relish and delight, so long as I mistook them for parched wheat; nor that bitterness and disa... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were he possessed of all the gold of Jafier (a famous gold refiner), a man without food could not satisfy his appetite. To a wretched mendicant, parched in the desert, a boiled turnip would relish better than an ingot of virgin silver."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us repair thither for the night, that we may shelter ourselves from the inclemency of the weather. One of the courtiers replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would not become the dignity of the sovereign to take refuge in the cottage of a low peasant; we can... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a store of goods I have in Turkestan, and such an assortment of merchandise in Hindustan; this is the mortgage-deed of a certain estate, and this the security-bond of a certain individual's concern. Then he would say:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a mind... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Sa'di, how comes it that you see these garments of the learned on this ignorant beast? I replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a vile epistle which has been written in golden letters:--'_Verily this ass, with the resemblance of a man, has the carcase of a c... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So far I can rely on the generous disposition of his reverence, that he will one day favor me by partaking of my bread and salt, by becoming my guest. The shaikh, or holy man, consented; for the acceptance of such an invitation accorded with the sunnat, or law and tradition of t... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A prudent restraint on my words is on that account advisable, because in conversation there on most occasions occur good and bad; and the eyes of rivals only note what is bad. He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O brother! that is our best rival who does not, ... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never has anybody acknowledged his own ignorance, excepting that person who, while another may be talking, and has not finished what he has to say, will begin speaking:--A speech, O wiseacre! has a beginning and an end; bring not one speech into the middle of another. A man of j... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whenever this ass of a preacher sets up a braying, his voice will make the city of Istakhar, or Persepolis, shake to its base_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have seen you in a dream; may it prove fortunate! He asked:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O generous youth, there belong to this mosque some mowuzzins, or criers, of long standing, to each of whom I allow a monthly stipend of five dinars; now I will give you ten to go elsewhere. To this he agreed, and took himself off. After a while he came to the nobleman, and said:... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quit not my hold on the skirt of thy garment, though thou may'st verily smite me with a sharp sword. Besides thee I have neither asylum nor defence; if I am to flee, I must take refuge with thee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is become of your precious reason... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put aside this vain fancy, for multitudes are in the durance and chains of this same passion which you are cherishing. He sighed aloud, and replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say to my friends, Do not admonish me, for my eye is fixed on the wish of her. With str... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So long as thou maintainest thine own dignity, of what value can my dignity appear in thine eye?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A youth of an amiable disposition and sweet flow of tongue is frequent in his attendance at the top of this plain; and we hear him deliveri... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not, O celestial creature! so occupied with thee, that I am harboring in my mind a thought of myself. Were I to perceive an arrow coming right into it, I could not shut my eye from contemplating thee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In like manner, as you inspect... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where were you? for I have been very solicitous about you. He replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is better to be sought after than loathed."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Sa'di! I am the torch of the assembly; what is it to me if the moth consume itself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "During this long interval you never sent me a messenger. I replied:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It vexed me to think that the eyes of... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the down of loveliness flourished on thy cheek, thou drovest the lord of thy attractions from thy sight; now thou hast come to court his peace when thy face is thick set with fathahs and zammahs, or the bristles of a beard:--The verdant foliage of thy spring is turned yello... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After my separation from him I came to a steady and firm determination, that during my remaining life I would fold up the carpet of enjoyment, and never re-enter the gay circle of society:--Were it not for the dread of its waves, much would be the profits of a voyage at sea; wer... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does any of you understand the Persian language? They directed him to me, and I answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is true. He continued:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An old man of a hundred and fifty years of age is in the agonies of death, ... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How come you to lie down here? Get up, this is no fit place for rest. I replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can I proceed, who have not a foot to stand on? He said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you not heard what the prudent have remarked... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O emanations of my soul, acquire knowledge, as no reliance can be placed on worldly riches and possessions, for once you leave home rank is of no use, and gold and silver on a journey are exposed to the risk either of thieves plundering them at once, or of the owner wasting them... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the schoolmaster relaxes in his discipline, the children will stop to play at marbles in the market-place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why have they again made a devil the preceptor of angels? A facetious old gentleman, who had seen much of life, listened to ... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the sons of Adam were as solicitous after Providence, or God, as they are after their means of sustenance, their places in Paradise would surpass those of the angels."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is, they (or God) will ask, saying:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are your works? But he will not question you, saying:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is your father?"
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My heart is bearing testimony to the truth of this remark; nor can it be otherwise, for as they have thus behaved towards their parents in their youth, so they are approved and beloved in their riper years. On his death-bed a father exhorted his son, saying:"
},
{
"from"... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is an unfit sport for you, whose dwelling is made of straw."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prescribe something for me. The doctor of horses applied to his eyes what he was in the habit of applying to the eyes of quadrupeds, and the man got blind. They carried their complaint before the hakim, or judge. He decreed:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This man ha... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall we inscribe upon the urn at his tomb. He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Verses of the holy Koran are of such superior reverence and dignity that they should not be written in places where time might efface, mankind tread upon, or dogs defile them;... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is the elephant, that he may behold the shoulder and arm of warriors? Where the lion, that he may feel the wrist and grip of heroes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you stop?--Display whatever strength and courage thou hast, for the foe came on his own fe... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father's mausoleum is built of granite, the epitaph inscribed with letters of gold, the pavement and lining marble, and tessellated with slabs of turquoise; and what is there left of your father's tomb but two or three bricks cemented together with a few handfuls of mortar? T... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The hand of the poor man's ability is tied up, and the foot of the rich man's inclination crippled:--Men of liberality have no command of money, nor have the opulent and worldly-minded a spirit of liberality."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my friend! the rich are t... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be it known to you, who were lavish in your praise of the rich, and spoke disparagingly of the poor, that there is no rose without its thorn; intoxication from wine is followed by a qualm; hidden treasure has its guardian dragon; where the imperial pearl is found, there swims th... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such as you have stated them, there is a tribe of rich men; but there is another class, who, having spread the table of abundance, and made a public declaration of their munificence, and smoothed the brow of their humility, are solicitous of a reputation and forgiveness, and des... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cannot trust the sincerity of friends, then what are you to expect from the cajoling of foes?"
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O wise man! wash thy hands of that friend who is in confederacy with thy foes."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cleanse me of ignorance by thy instruction? He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O fakir, or theologician! go and bear things patiently like the earth; or whatever thou hast read let it all be buried under the earth."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If this deed of conveyance be not authentic may I, O God, die a Jew! The Jew replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the Pentateuch I swear, if what I say be false, I am a Mussulman like you! Were intellect to be annihilated from the face of the earth, nobody coul... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What art thou endeavoring to do? In this vain attempt dread the reproof of the censorious! A brute can never learn speech from thee; do thou learn silence from him."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When a person superior to what thou art engages thee in conversation do not contradict him, though thou may'st know better."
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It were wiser to delay the execution of captives, inasmuch as the option is left so that you can slay, or you can release them; but if you shall have heedlessly put them to death, the policy is defunct, for the opportunity of repairing it is lost"
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you?"
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O sir! if thou art unfortunate in having this disposition, in what have the fortunate been to blame?--Take heed, and wish not misfortune to the misanthrope, for his own ill-conditioned lot is calamity sufficient. What need is there of showing ill-will to him, who has such an ene... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever I was ignorant of myself, I felt no shame in asking of others"
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O son of man, if I bestow riches upon you, you will be more intent upon your property than upon me, and if I leave you in poverty you will sit down dejected; how then can you feel a relish to praise, or a zeal to worship me?"
}
] |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God, have compassion on the wicked, for to the good thou hast been abundantly kind, inasmuch as thou hast made them virtuous."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why did you bestow all the decoration and ornament on the left hand, whilst the right is the superior? He an... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of the many celebrated trees which the Most High God has created lofty and umbrageous, they call none azad, or free, excepting the cypress, which bears no fruit; what mystery is there in this? He replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Each has its appropriate produc... |
13060 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gulistan, or Flower-Garden, was completed through the assistance and grace of God. Throughout the whole of this work I have not followed the custom of writers by inserting verses of poetry borrowed from former authors:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is more deco... |
30530 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dagblad, and in 1879 and 1880 there appeared two volumes of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Novelettes. These were marked by a light satirical touch and a sympathy with liberal ideas, and were written in a style which may well have owed some of its clarity to the stud... |
30530 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Skipper Worse"
}
] |
30530 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Skipper Worse, marked a distinct step in his development. It was less of a social satire and more of a social study. It was not merely a series of brilliant, exquisitely finished scenes, loosely strung together on a slender thread of narrative, but was a concise and well-constru... |
30530 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Essays on Scandinavian Literature"
}
] |
30530 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alexander Kielland, in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Bookman"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Lauritz, you young scamp, go aloft and clear the dogvane."
}
] |
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