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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Six days shalt thou labor, which is just as binding as the other part," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work. To these people who never labor because they are so heavenly-minded, I would te...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, we do not know anything about the trunk or the branches; but we have got the root, and we mean to stick to that, and not give it up." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, he thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Hill, it is now sixty-five years since I first heard you preach; but I remember your text, and a part of your sermon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, asked the preacher," }, { "from": "human", "value": "His friend answered," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I was a boy, I used to hear the story of a tailor who lived to a great age, and became very wealthy, so that he was an object of envy to all who knew him. His life, as all lives will, drew to a close; but before he passed away, feeling some desire to benefit the members of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How can I dismiss you with a blessing, for many of you are 'Anathema Maranatha,' because you love not the Lord Jesus Christ?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is another man, I cried a good deal over it. Poor soul, just rescued, half-dead, with only a few rags on him, and yet he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is another man, needing to be saved. The second time I heard the story, I liked it, but I did not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drelincourt on Death, a book which, I should think, nobody has ever been able to read through. There may have been instances of persons who have attempted it; but I believe that, long before they have reached the latter end, they have been in a state of asphyxia or coma, and hav...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Escape for your life, because, if you die, you are lost; but if I die, it is all right with me; so you go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could have saved him; and when they asked him how he could have saved him, he described a plan that seemed to be most excellent...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, said a brother once," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I know; my wife comes to hear this man sometimes, so she has been telling him all about me! Then he feels curious to hear more, and while he is looking up at the preacher, and listening to the truth that is being proclaimed, the first gleam of light on divine things dawns u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I ought to have had a larger stock of that kind of thing, I see that it is getting fashionable! or it may be that one of the hearers has caught sight of his neighbor, and he thinks he must pay him a visit on the morrow; and so people's thoughts are occupied with all sorts o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some preachers expect too much of their hearers; they take a number of truths into the pulpit as a man might carry up a box of nails; and then, supposing the congregation to be posts, they take out a nail, and expect it to get into the post by itself. Now, that is not the way to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I have been to hear anybody else preach, I have always been able to lay down a ship from stem to stern; but when I listen to Mr. Whitefield, I cannot even lay the keel. And another, a weaver, said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have often, when I have been in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes! she replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There must be some" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where can we get them? At the very beginning of this afternoon's talk, let me say that _nobody need make anecdotes_ in order to interest a congregation. I have heard of one who called to see a minister on a Friday, and he was told by the servant that her master could not be seen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Bible and the Newspaper, I have given specimens of how this may be done; and when I was preparing the present lecture, I took up a newspaper to see if I could find an illustration in it, and I soon found one. There was an account of a man at Wandsworth, who was discovered, w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not think, however, that if I were preaching at Wapping I should call the people" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as Rowland Hill is said to have done, when he told them that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Christ could save old sinners, great sinners...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That part of the god will never be seen, for it will be built into the wall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The gods can see in the wall," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cannot possibly take such an interest in these flowers and trees as I do, for I laid out the whole garden myself, and every plant here I planted with my own hand. I have watered them, and I have seen them grow, I have been a husbandman to them, and therefore I love them far ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God knows that there are sins that would destroy us, and he has therefore given us portraits of them in his Word, so that, wherever we see them, we may say, 'That is a sin that would stab me; I must beware of that evil thing, and keep out of its way.'" }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, here are some Christian people met to worship God; I am glad that what I thought was an awkward mistake in losing my way has brought me here; I may, perhaps, both do good and get good." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to speak if you will give me a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, madam, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We know that this means so-and-so, because that is how the matter is explained in the book for beginners." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Tour Round my Garden. Why does not somebody write" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Tour Round my Dining-Table, or," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A Tour Round my Kitchen ? I believe a most interesting volume of the kind might be written by any man who...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The wise man's eyes are in his head, and addressing such a man, he wrote," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is very dull, teacher; can't you pitch us a yarn?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christian in Complete Armor, or Matthew Henry's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Commentary, with the distinct view of noticing all the illustrations, emblems, metaphors, and similes that you can find. I should even select _non_-comparisons; I like Keach's" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will not go out of this room until I have made at least half a dozen good illustrations. The Chinese say that the intellect lies in the stomach, and that the affections are there too. I think they are right on the latter point, because, you know, if you are ever very fond of a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Young Astronomer" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harmonics --with this reverent and devout expression of his feelings:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I give thee thanks, Lord and Creator, that thou hast given me joy through thy creation; for I have been ravished with the work of thy hands. I have revealed unto mank...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A maker of spectacles at Middleburg stumbled upon the discovery owing to his children directing his attention to the enlarged appearance of the weathercock of a church, as accidentally seen through two spectacle-glasses, held between the fingers some distance apart. This was one...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Heavens and the Earth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But if there be any man who is too dull to receive this science, I advise that, leaving the school of astronomy, he follow his own path, and desist from this wandering through the universe; and, lifting up his natural eyes, with which he alone can see, pour himself out in his ow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How will it benefit _me_?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All things are drawn to their own center. Be thou the Center of my heart, O God, my Light, my only Love!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Upon Scheiner, a German Jesuit, reporting the evidence of his senses to his provincial superior, the latter positively refused to believe him. 'I have read,' said he, 'Aristotle's writings from end to end many times, and I can assure you that I have nowhere found in them anythin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seeds, carried in by the birds to their young, and dropped, had sprung up, producing tall, blanched, spectral stalks, covered with half-formed leaves; but it was impossible to recognize the species from the change in form, color, and aspect, which the absence of light had occasi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clouds and rain sometimes obscure the atmosphere for several days together, and during this time the buds expand themselves into leaves. But these leaves have a pallid hue till the sun appears, when, in a few hours of clear sky and splendid sunshine, their color is changed to a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We were now enveloped in a total and palpable darkness, if I may be allowed the expression. It came on rapidly, but I watched so attentively that I could perceive its progress. It came upon us like a great black cloak thrown over us, or like a curtain drawn from that side. The h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The phenomenon, in its magnificence, had triumphed over the petulance of youth, over the levity which some persons assume as a sign of superiority, over the noisy indifference of which soldiers usually make profession. A profound stillness also reigned in the air; the birds had ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O beautiful sun! and well she might. When I read the story, I thought that, when my heart had suffered eclipse, and the presence of Christ had gone for a while, and then had come back again, how beautiful the Sun seemed to me, even more bright and fair than before the temporary ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not I, but Christ." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is clear that Venus does not go round the sun, because, if it does, it must present the same aspect as the moon--namely, it must sometimes be a crescent, at other times a half-moon, or it must assume the form known as _gibbous_, and sometimes it must appear as a complete circ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It has been called Lucifer, and Phosphorus, the light-bringer, and also Hesperus, the vesper star. You perhaps remember how Milton, in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Paradise Lost," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whenever he comes into the soul, he is the sure harbinger of that everlasting light which shall go no more down forever. Now that Jesus, the Sun of Righteousness, has gone from the gaze of man, you and I must be like evening stars, keeping as close as we can to the great central...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a truly astonishing thought that, 'awake, asleep, at home, abroad,' we are constantly carried round with the terrestrial mass, at the rate of eleven miles a minute, and are, at the same time, traveling with it in space with a velocity of sixty-six thousand miles an hour. T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear me! I can feel that I am growing; bless the Lord! Let's sing a hymn, 'I'm a-growing! I'm a-growing!'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I stood alone upon the flat roof of the house which I inhabited, watching the progress of the eclipse. I pictured in imagination the lively and extraordinary scene which I once witnessed in the interior of Guiana, among the untutored and superstitious Indians, how they rushed ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There must surely be something or other between Mars and Jupiter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What will it be? he inquired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, said Kepler," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head, through which the air is admitted to the tabernacle of the body, to enlighten, to warm, and to nourish it; which windows are the principal parts of the microcosm, or little world, two nostrils, two eyes, two e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Instead, therefore, of sinking like lead in the mighty waters, he would float upon the liquid, if an ocean could be found sufficiently capacious to receive him. John Goad, the well-known astro-meteorologist, declared the planet not to be such a 'plumbeous, blue-nosed fellow' as ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "None of us liveth to himself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To detect a planet by the eye, or to track it to its place by the mind, are acts as incommensurable as those of muscular and intellectual power. Recumbent on his easy-chair, the practical astronomer has but to look through the cleft in his revolving cupola in order to trace the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the system, which, without the use of a pole, are able to cross this gulf; they are THE COMETS. These comets are, as a rule, so thin--a mere filmy mass of vapor--that when they come flashing into our system, and rushing out again, as they do, they never disturb the motion of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Messier, who had acquired the name of 'the comet-hunter,' from the number he discovered, was particularly anxious upon the occasion. Of great simplicity of character, his zeal after comets was often displayed in the oddest manner. While attending the death-bed of his wife, and n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the whole, it may be considered as tolerably certain that the comet will become visible in every part of Europe about the latter end of August, or the beginning of September next. It will most probably be distinguishable by the naked eye, like a star of the first magnitude, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I always admire that charming variety; and I am thankful to God that he has not set the stars in straight lines, like rows of street-lamps. Only think, brethren, how it would be if we looked up at night, and saw the stars all arranged in rows, like pins on a paper! Bless the Lor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What it may portend is hard to determine; and thus much only is certain, that it comes to tell mankind either nothing at all, or high and weighty news, quite beyond human sense and understanding. In allusion to the opinions of some, who explained the novel object by the Epicurea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the clearest and most vigorous protestation of the whole Sunday-School question in a nutshell we have seen. It is a work that ought to be in the hands of all preachers, since its practical treatment of the difficulties of our present system, and the proper remedy to be a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This unpretentious magazine is as good as the very best of its homiletical compeers. It goes straight to the point, making no big pretences of learning and eloquence, it goes in for practical suggestions, which will be really useful to men who are laboring to win souls. Although...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a book that has come to stay because there are elements of power in it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a book which will not only add to the intelligence of the Christian, but invigorate and strengthen him in the performance of all Christian duties." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Professor Dawson discusses his topic from the various standpoints of a student of nature, not from the single standpoint which has mostly been occupied by theologians. The book is not a _partisan_ publication. It will be found by those opposed to be perfectly candid and fair, ad...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A book that should be in every minister's library. The doctor's style is singularly pure and candid, and the diction and dignity, scholarship and research is manifest in every page." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dr. Deems eminent common sense never appeared more pro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Patchwork Girl of Oz, convinces me that my readers like the Oz stories" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, but it is not like this story of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tik-Tok of Oz," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for that is the only way I can communicate with the Land of Oz. When I asked her about this idea, she replied:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, haven't you heard? I said" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "OZCOT" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I won't! cried Ann;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't sweep the floor. It is beneath my dignity." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some one must sweep it, replied Ann's younger sister, Salye;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm Queen of Oog...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going away. This absurd Kingdom of Oogaboo tires me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go, if you want to, answered Salye;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because in the Land of Oz, which is Ozma's country...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentle people are always afraid of those that bluster, Ann told herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't wish to shed any blood, for that would shock my nerves and I might faint; but if we threaten and flash our weapons I am sure the people of Oz will fall upo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jo, said Ann," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to conquer the world, and I command you to join my Army." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Impossible! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The bun crop has to be picked." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jo, said Ann," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to conquer the world, and you must join my Army." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Excuse me, please, said Jo Cone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a bad fighter. My good wife conquere...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many Generals are there in your army?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Four, so far," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And how big will the army be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I intend to make every one of the eighteen men in Oogaboo join...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate to have a Private Soldier in my army, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ozma's army doesn't fight, returned Files;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Form ranks!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe your Army can run better than it can fight," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, replied General Bunn, proudly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're not looking for trouble, you know,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, said Ann, trying to conceal her disappointment;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have we conquered this place, Your Majesty?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most certainly, said Ann." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have met no peo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A fog is coming toward us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not think it is a fog, replied Files, looking with interest at the approaching cloud." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It seems to me more like the breath of a Rak." }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rak!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Badness me! moaned the Rak." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See what you've done with that dangerous gun of yours!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't see, replied Files," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't tell me it was an accident, con...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon me if I now bid you good-bye, he said to the Rak." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The parting is caused by our desire to continue our journey. If you die, do not blame me, for I was obliged to shoot you as a matter of self-protection." }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are wiser than he, however, muttered General Clock," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hee-haw!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hee-haw!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll protect me, Hank dear, won't you? she cried helplessly, and the mule said" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hee-haw!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hank; there's land ahead!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hee-haw!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'd like some breakfast, Hank, remarked the girl, feeling more cheerful now that she was on dry land;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hee-haw!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There ought to be people somewhere 'round, observed Betsy thoughtfully;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hee-haw!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I beg your pardon!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O-o-o-h! cried the Roses, in a sort of sighing chorus; and one of them added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What a horrid noise!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, that was only Hank, sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O-ho!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look out for his heels!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are breaking the Law!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What Law?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Law of the Rose Kingdom. No strangers are allowed in these domains." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good gracious! exclaimed Betsy, approaching him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who _are_ you, and where did you come from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Me? Oh, I'm Shaggy Man, said he, taking another bite of the apple." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're breaking the Law! You're breaking the Law!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is the glass the Law in this country?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Breaking the glass is breaking the Law, squeaked the Gardener, angrily." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, she whispered, approaching the Shaggy Man and taking his hand;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't worry, my dear, replied Shaggy, patting the child's head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not afraid of anything, so long as I have the Love Mag...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are all condemned to death! Your only chance to escape is to leave here instantly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, you lovely, lovely man! How fond I am of you! Every shag and bobtail that decorates you is dear to me--all I have is yours! But for goodness' sake get out of here before you die the death." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not going to die," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, she's ripe!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, perhaps so, admitted the Gardener, who had come to the girl's side;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, indeed!" } ]