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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've been having ructions over at our house, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Peggy, would you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what I should do, Peggy said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like the people I like aw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad you are here, Father, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall I go?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, dear, I want you to stay. It's not a secret. It is merely that Mr. Chambers has asked me to marry him, and I have said that I would."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's just a telegram from your brother, she said to Elizabeth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hope can't do me much good, she thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "First Violin," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prometheus Bound, he may, Mother says. I guess she thinks anything that will keep me contented is a good idea. I think" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Prometheus Bound" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't feel very much like going to Swan Pond crabbing, she thought, as she sealed her two letters, and set them before her on the desk," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Tom Robbins notices how I look and asks me any questions, I shall only tell him that I am in deep trouble, she thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't say anything like that to Bill. He would only grin and be embarrassed, but I think Tom Robbins would unde...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If anybody says, 'Come on in, the water's fine,' they'll owe me a pineapple college ice, Peggy declared," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you go jeering at the manners and customs of my native town," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did your ancestors ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't know that you could catch them so near the shore, Elizabeth said, looking down at her bare toes in some dismay," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The game is not to let them bite you, Peggy said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hooray! One for me--...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are those things around your neck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shark's teeth. I wear 'em for luck. I cut 'em out myself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cut them out of what?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sharks. What'd you think I g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You watch me pretending to be a whale, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's a good little swimmer, Elizabeth thought, as she watched his antics." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess he'll turn out all right. How wonderful Grandmother is, alway...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I sit down beside you? she asked, in her low, clear voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peggy couldn't come down to the beach to-day. I was too lazy to go in swimming, but I thought I'd like a smell of the sea, all the same." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life is a curious thing, she said to herself, slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everything is a part of everything, she said, a little confusedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Buddy, dear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are going to lose Judidy next winter, her grandmother said when that young woman had blushed, giggled, and withdrawn to the back porch, from which the sound of a drawling, masculine voice was heard at intervals, interspersed with Judidy's high-pitched protestations." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's better. He's going to get well, she sobbed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, dear, I was afraid I had killed him, but I didn't. I did him good." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He needed something to rouse him, Grandmother said," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope he'll get here while it's still cucumber season, Grandmother said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My, how that boy used to eat herrings and cucumbers! I cooked a whole half dozen once, and I vow he et the whole lot, and I don't know how many cucumbers. He was ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was the poetry you said you were going to say to me? she began," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hasty pudding in the pot, Pumpkin in the lantern, If you hadn't come from Crocker Neck, You wouldn't be so handsome." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grandfather, what did you do when you were a young man?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I went to sea." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How old were you when you first went?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cook? Elizabeth cried." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The barge has turned in on our street, and it's stopping here, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess we're going to have company. I'm dretful glad Father killed those roosters this morning. There's plenty cooked." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I lift these here baggages into the house for you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, thank you. Thirty-five cents, isn't it? Oh, don't bother to make change. That's all right." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For the Land o' Liberty! Grandmother e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a little love, and I'm sitting on the floor. They put me here to sit and sing, Eating cookies as I sing, On Grandma Swiftie's lovely floor. A little girl I used to be Is sitting on the floor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think you have sung almost en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that my present? Madget said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You shouldn't have come upstairs without being sent, Madget." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was sent. You sent me for a thimble." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She _is_ an apple-blossom girl, she said, thoughtfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Mother, Mother, Mother, Elizabeth wailed, flinging her arms around her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, now, I guess you're satisfied, Grandfather said, comi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is all this radiance for this morning, Elizabeth? Me or Buddy or the new roadster?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You _and_ Buddy _and_ the new roadster, Father, darling. The roadster was the completest surprise, but I am more intimately fond of you and Buddy. I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Sister?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Buddy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you know about Ruth, now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About Ruth?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Sister, darling, you hear...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buddy's in there," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come and show me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right this way, Elizabeth said, superfluously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Buddy, here's Ruth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to be married, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Buddy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's me you should be marrying. You know that, don't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Ruth Farraday." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it all right? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Buddy, is it all right?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, little sister, Buddy said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But she must break it off, Buddy. It'll kill you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This week has been such an awful strain, Peggy said, wiping her eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Awfully sorry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got a kind of a sore finger," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll remember and not scrunch it, Tom said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's going to be sore all the week, isn't it, Elizabeth? asked the irrepressible Peggy." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bet you I can eat more clams than you can," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you can, said Peggy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are going to eat watermelon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to take one of those boatshaped pi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Piggy's--I mean, Mr. Chambers' parents have sent the flat silver, Peggy announced," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've got very good natural taste, Peggy--my mother says so." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know it. So's Ruth. I bet she hates this. Ju...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not like you, Doctor Fell (Chambers) The reason why I cannot tell, But this alone I know full well, I do not like you, Doctor Fell (Chambers)." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would be nice to have lots of money, Elizabeth said," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take some seats," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lovely weather we're having for this time of year, Peggy continued, conversationally." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ruth, dear, I love you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad of that," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Speaking of fish, Buddy said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you don't suppose right, then, Grandfather said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That isn't true, is it? asked Elizabeth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do herrings go back to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buddy, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Buddy, dear." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm all right, Sis. Run along." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought perhaps you wanted to walk with me to the post office." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He didn't go back to dinner, after all, Elizabeth thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One thing that the life over there taught you was that you've got to get through every day somehow, he said, thoughtfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish ice-cream soda didn't drip so much. There's a row of pink rings and chocolate rings all along this counter...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was just mailing you a letter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't I get it out?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Ruth said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is so much I _might_ say!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You look like a lady in them clothes, Moses said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's got gloves on, Mabel said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Loverly gloves, said Madget, dreamily." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me and Marmer and Mabel has these, Moses informed her proudly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madget, she drinks out of a mug. It's only a plain white mug, so we don't put it where it will show. Ma, she says she had just as soon we would eat out o' them dishes if we'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad to see you, Elizabeth said, a little confusedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just came in to say good-bye. I'm going away to-night, you know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What train be you taking?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "House seems kinder lonesome to-night, don't it, Mother? Hard lines to lose the whole family all to once. They ought to gone off one by one, so's we wouldn't notice it so much." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Times come and seasons change, said Grandmother." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was replaced with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "was replaced with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peggy s! was replaced with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peggy's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Promethueus Bound was replaced w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "should be arranged. The author was tempted to follow the example of Adolf Wolff, a free verse poet who published a volume some years ago called _Songs, Sighs and Curses_, and explained in a foreword," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When asked in what sequence he would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said the Headmaster, as he looked out at the purple hills which ringed the school," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I'll train him to slay dragons." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He might be killed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've never known them worse, replied the Headmaster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Up in the hills to the south last week they killed a number of peasants, two cows and a prize pig. And if this dry spell holds there's no telling when they may start a forest fire sim...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down, said the Headmaster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have a cigarette." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I know it's against the rules, said the Headmaster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But after all, you have received your preli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you have learned the theories of life, continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They say that those dragons down in the south wood are five hundred feet long," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stuf...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've forgotten the magic word," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What a pity, said the dragon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So that was the secret. It doesn't seem quite sporting to me, all th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't say 'Rumplesnitz'! He was sure of that and yet there was no question that he had killed the dragon. In fact, he had never killed one so utterly. Never before had he driven a head for anything like the same distance. Twenty-five yards was perhaps his best previous record...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He'll be all right as soon as he gets a couple more dragons under his belt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would be a shame to stop such a fine run, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, counting that one yesterday, he's killed fifty dragons."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gawaine le Coeur-Hardy, followed by the simple inscription," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He killed fifty dragons." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Except, perhaps, for an unusual amount of snarling, they did as well for me as for Charlie. I put them through their regular work, which took fifteen or twenty minutes, drove them back, and fastened them into their own cages and climbed down on to the floor from the performing c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A lion that will walk round when you get in the cage with him is all right, as a general thing, explains Conklin," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is true, though, he adds," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A lion that growls frightfully and acts very ferocious when you are outside the cage may be one of the easiest to handle and get work out of when once you are actually in the cage; and on the other hand, a lion that is mean and dangerous to do anything with in the cage may be ex...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had taught George to jump for me as I went out the door, writes Conklin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It had been done by blowing on his nose and then jumping back as you would play with a dog. It always made a great hit with the crowd, who supposed it had seen a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go git Conklin! The preparations of the trainer were simple. First he got an iron bar and then he found the lion and hit him on the end of the nose." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After a few minutes, he adds," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had him sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now surely here was opportunity such as never came to man before. Here was a position in which a man might well bow himself in fear of himself, and search his heart and serve God and man to the utmost." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He tried to do the impossible and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A scheme for decorating Frenchmen with bits of ribbon which was admirably calculated to divert ambitious men from subversive proceedings." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I ever have anything to do with West Point I'm going to copy these Frenchmen. They do it naturally, but we've got to learn. I'm going to introduce a course in practical theatricalism. Now, if I were a general, as soon as I heard of some little trench raid in which Private Smi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just a ridiculous scene." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even as a very small child I always wanted my plans made in advance. Once, when mother had a bad sick headache, I sat on the edge of her bed and begged her to tell me if she thought she was going to die, so if she was I could plan to go and live with my Aunt Margaret. I was an o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Keep Off the Grass," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No Trespassing," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Beware of the Dog," }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where do you want to go? No provision is made for the casual traveler without a destination. The query" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What trains have you got?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seats eight weeks in advance" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a delicate compound, not so good as I was to discover later at the Telegrafo, but still a revelation, and I was devoutly thankful to be sitting at that hour in the Inglaterra with such a drink. It elevated my contentment to an even higher pitch, and, with a detached amuse...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You should have come to the party. We played a new game called 'adverbs.' You send somebody out of the room and choose an adverb, and when she comes back you've got to answer all the questions in the spirit of that adverb. You know rudely, quickly, cryptically, or anything like ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to get drunk, must first be set, and then the rum has to be ordered and poured out and consumed pretty regularly. In fact, we never could look at a bottle without feeling that the label probably bore the express direction," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tak...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Harvard was old Harvard when Yale was but a pup, And Harvard will be Harvard still when Yale has all gone up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if any Eli------" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three cheers for Harvard and down with Yale. This, he sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When his brother entered Harvard two years later he was promptly christened, and known for his next four years, as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Yale eleven with characteristic bulldog grit and courage carried the ball over the line." }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, we assume that Kempton started it. For weeks we continued to receive letters from Yale undergraduates beginning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My attention has been called to your article" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Also, there are obvious reasons why they cannot meet as equal members in the fellowship of educated men. Since this is a nonpartisan article designed to promote good feeling it will probably be just as well not to go into this. Though...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Submarine Crisis Acute to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Submarine Crisis Still Acute." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When Leeks Are Young in Springtime --or something like that, and I wouldn't be surprised if now and again there was some fluffy little miss to sing soprano to your bass. Youth! Youth! To be young, a rabbit and stewed. (_Quoting reminiscently_)" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fair and Warmer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fair and Warmer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fair and Warmer" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, There, Annie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, There, Annie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Merry Christmas" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Death, where is thy sting? just as if they had a pretty good hunch I had one around me some place after all. And you know that other--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My friends, this is not a sad occasion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll meet you in the press box, and then before you know it he's gone. The Sick Man is still laughing, but less loudly. People who did not know might think it was gasping. The Nurse opens the door and is frightened. She loudly calls" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As a reader of the book columns of _The Tribune_ I am humbly requesting your assistance in the matter of a little experiment that I desire to perform. I find myself highly enamored of a superlatively attractive young lady who has, however, one apparent drawback to me. That lies ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is this really love?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let New York be destroyed, shouted Dr. Straton as he pushed his way into the inner room. The king was engaged at the moment in watching a sparrow fall to earth and motioned the visitor to compose himself in silence, but there was an urgency in the voice and manner of the man fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg your pardon, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You forget, he answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All that is immaterial, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I know my theology well enough to understand that law ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow night in Bethlehem the King of the World will be born." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When he is born, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The King of the World will understand. Then, although it was not yet light, she got up and began to bake a cake, and Simon went beyond the town to the hills and got holly and made a wreath. Later in the day hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You haven't been to Bethlehem," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, where is the cake, and the holly wreath, and the toy duck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sorry, said Simon," }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No matter whether your child is still in the cradle or is eighteen years old, this course will show how to apply the right methods at once. You merely take up the particular trait, turn to the proper page and apply the lessons to the child. You are told exactly what to do." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Izzie gonna teachie itty cutums English or not? asks Prudence Brandish in effect in her book _Mother Love in Action_, and proceeds to protest vigorously against the practice of bringing up children on baby talk. It is true that parents deserve part of the blame, but babies ought...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But seems much more elastic and does not involve the child in questions of race prejudice and other problems which he does not fully comprehend as yet. The round disks on a coat are" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and H. seems satisfied that so are doorknobs and ears ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "since all the world struggles in religion, in politics and in economics are between those who believe in buttoning up life a little tighter and those who would cut away all fastenings and let gravity do its worst or best. However, we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man, said I, rather optimistically, pointing to the bronze. H. 3rd looked intently, and taking his hands from his stomach answered" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Man, I repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But though they wrote it all by rote They did not write it right." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was conjectured, writes Hudson," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "People talk about children being hard to teach and in the next breath deplore the facility with which they acquire the 'vices.' That seems strange. It takes as much patience, energy and faithful application to become proficient in a vice as it does to learn mathematics. Yet cons...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was it a large, rather fat June bug?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, says H. 3rd," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That June bug, says the doctor," } ]