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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And, anyhow, I thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Victorian parent spanked his offspring and commanded them to love him any way. The modern parent refrains from spanking (for good reasons) and hopes the child will love him. The Freudian parent does not mind if his children do hate him once or twice a day, so long as they ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "H. 3rd by right of experience looks upon the armamentarium of the kitchen as his indisputable possessions and can hardly be expected to except a carver. The deification of the parent occurs in accord with the ancestor worship of primitive forebears, and the father will remain th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I myself should like to warn you against letting Heywood 3rd ever read Floyd Dell's book. The very idea of his advising about children leaves a bad taste in the mouth. You'll be sorry some day if you ever take him seriously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and another...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dad, can't you understand how wrong you are? Don't you see that if you disturb or even threaten the institution of private property you undermine the home, imperil the state and destroy initiative?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rockabye Baby to him, but that didn't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reds and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Red" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If, when H. 3rd or any other young person, reached the age of understanding a stranger came into the home and attempted to entertain the young mind with stories and suggestions such as are contained in the book in question, whoever had in charge the moral welfare of the young pe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh God, please keep all shame out of the heart and mind of H. 3rd." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good boy, dada?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you are a good boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry. I wish I could see brighter things for you in the days to come. Please forgive the impertinence of this prophecy. It has been wrung from the experience of one who has been condemned out of the mouth of fourteen as a socialist, a pacifist and (if he had known the word...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and such words except when disguised by the expedient of spelling out" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dardanella, dragged me eagerly toward the pavilion. I supposed, of course, that he wanted to ride and had just time to strap him on top of a camel before the platform began to move. No sooner were we in motion round and round, slow at first and then faster and faster as the revo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woodie, she said, using the fearful nickname which has fastened itself upon the child," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tut, tut." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think it's right, said the nurse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think childre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bill of Rights," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Free Speech," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Magna Charta and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Habeas Corpus. The blocks have not been altogether a success. The set is badly depleted, for the child...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I added trousers, a walking stick, a high hat, a fierce scowl and put a long pipe in the mouth, but he could see no difference. It was still a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Baybay," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Slaves of Fashion" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can beat any man in the world, at which point H. 3rd is supposed to chime in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And lick 'em. In response to this challenge Heywood 2d appeared, and when David picked up another rock and threw it H. 2d cleverly put up his hands and caug...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know anything of modern English public schools? How many Americans do? You know of Beedale's and Abbotsholm, crank schools, but you know nothing of Audle. Have you ever heard of Audle? Audle has 500 boys (two of mine). No class teaching practically, boys working in resear...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, says the teacher," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And yet we wonder that when the boys and girls grow old enough to vote they usually follow the same order of boss or demagogue, who says," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hylan is the people's friend;...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heywood Broun 3rd, writes a correspondent who signs no name," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Even now we are of the opinion that all the Commandments should be observed in decent moderation. We think we are correct in assuming that the Fifth is," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And afterwards they cried out to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour called Aod, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, who used the left hand as well as the right." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aod, continues the vivid scriptural narrative," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The inhabitants of Gabaa, who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right and slinging stones so sure that they could hit even a hair, and not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and of awkward things as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My left is broken, my right has been driven back, I shall attack at dawn." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why him--he's a lefthander! There is also the well authenticated story of a young lefthanded golfer in our Middle West who played a match with Harry Vardon, in which he made a brilliant showing. Indeed, the youngster was so much elated that at the end of the round he asked the g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, Michael, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Voila un sousmarin! or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's gold, pardner!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New Republic" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but even before the catalogues arrived it was" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now we call it" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is only half a mile to some village, not specified. Four of the ten acres are tillable and the rest in timber. Since there are at least 250 cords of wood bringing five to six dollars per cord, the author of the catalogue is entirely justified in the use of the phrase" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said E----," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said E----, aggressively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have forgotten the description, I remarked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It says the farm is fine for trucking." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "George F. Sweetser, Real Estate Agent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "George F. Sweetser, Storm King on the Hudson, New York. Legalized expert judge of horses, cattle, poultry, fruits, etc.--pomologist and botanist--private scoring and mating poultry--starting judge ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you see that farm over there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, that man took my advice and he got 440 bushels of potatoes on two acres." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's a lot of potatoes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll say i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What part of the country are you from?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; I know, said the farmer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been there. I saw the Hudson-Fulton celebration. I've seen about everything, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We didn't stop agin till we got to Detroit. That's where they make the Fords, Tin Lizzies, they call 'em around here. But I always say, What difference does it make what they call 'em if they can do the work? I always say one of 'em's as good as a horse--as good as two horses. A...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Widow left alone will sell farm for $1,000 spot cash. E. thinks that delay in the matter may be fatal because of the cheapness of the price." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How can we tell, is the burden of her plaint," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have fried eggs on top of the Andes" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he hasn't got anything on." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He hasn't got anything on! Voice after voice takes up the shout. Seemingly thousands of people are shouting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He hasn't got anything on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Open, in the King's name!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Margaret Fuller's father was thirty-two when she was born, writes Katharine Anthony in her biography of the great feminist." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A self-made man, he had been obliged to postpone marriage and family life to a comparatively advanced age." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some day, says the young man to himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to sit down and write a novel, or the great American drama, or an epic poem." }, { "from": "human", "value": "because he was all of twenty-nine, and veterans of thirty were ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A psychological biography," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When we see a person of moderate powers, she wrote," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We doubt this friend raised himself too early to the perpendicular, and did not lie along the ground long enough to hear the whispers of our parent life. We would wish he might be thro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The thing that surprised Richard most, says a recent woman novelist," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Richard tried to take up the bundle, his fingers fell away like the legs of the brittle crab and the bundle collapsed, incalculable and helpless. 'How do you do it?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It isn't something which can be read in a book or taught in a school. Nature is the great teacher." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not touch." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gretchen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps, he thought to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eb dewollah," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is the end, cried the wizard." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is no hope. This is the final charm. The Lord's Prayer is last of all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not hear the Lord's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, cried the Mayor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tra ohw, came the voice from the dyke. The priest, not daunted by the fate of the guard, hurried close to the side of the swaying figure and sprinkled him with holy water, but no sooner had the water left his hands than each drop changed to a tiny tongue of fire, leaping and dan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's Gretchen, she called." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Save me, Hans, save me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rothdam and its brave citizens are saved, said the Mayor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To-night I will burn two hundred candles in honor of our patron saint, who has this day delivered us and enabled us to continue a happy existence under the best municipal governm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you this, Frank, because I know all about it. And in another volume mothers are urged to hold before their children the ideals of the Light Brigade," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My boy, listen: I love you and I do not like to hurt you. But every boy must be made to obey his father and mother, and this seems to be the only way to make you do it. So remember! Every time you disobey me you shall be punished. When I tell you to do a thing, you must do it in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "one parent writes:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These items should never enter the arena of argument; they may, if taken up early, by a gentle, loving firmness, be treated always as though they were as certain as sunrise, for there is a curious conventionality, a l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No time of day is more heavenly in a home than the hour when little children, like white angels, go up the stairs to bed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Another suggests to her children to meet a proposal toward gossip with the quiet remark, 'I like all my friends.' Nothing more can be said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, let's talk about Gaby Deslys or King Edward VII." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a large room, with a number of desks divided by glass partitions and with a large table in the center. At the far end of the room was a fire burning brightly in the grate, and in front of it were two men and a girl, the men in swing chairs with their legs stretched out, t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fleet Street, says Gibbs, who tells the story partly in the first person," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We women wear out sooner. Five years in Fleet Street withers any girl. Then she gets crow's feet round her eyes and becomes snappy and fretful, or a fierce creatu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll Say It Is in 1922 all he has to do is to remember what he said about" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have Another in 1920. Once or twice a year a book or play comes along which doesn't fit into any pigeonhole, but that can be dismissed in one paragraph as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Joyce proposed that they should 'drink luck' to the undertaking and have 'a glass of port wine.' The girl (our heroine) had been in the chorus too long to be startled by the suggestion--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That any girl could tremble at the idea of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I came to talk to you again, if you'll let me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know very well that I can't help it, our heroine answered. This was not polite, but at least it had a more engaging quality of boldness than anything she had said before. But soon she w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where do you get that stuff? or," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you get that way?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Personal Habits," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you are a gentleman always ask a lady's permission before smoking, and if you find that her statement that it is disagreeable to her is a disappointment to you, and that your observance of her wishes causes you real ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The best is none too good for you, he writes graciously, and continues:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whether it is the country or the village or the city, the men and women you want to know are the best--those who are getting the best out of life--those who have be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Thompson writes:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "These epithets are always ready to the hand of the slack-living, uncouth man, who is more comfortable in bad society than he is in good society--and he loves to throw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Find out what everybody will have and don't forget the boys in the back room. Mr. Craig's theater is much too special for our taste. It will do away with everything that is boisterous and vulgar and broadly human. Consider, for instance, Mr. Craig's short chapter entitled" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You got what was coming to you, you big stiff!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was shining up the ball with emery," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We do not applaud the Atlantic Ocean, continues Craig," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rah, ra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Big hit!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Woods, we wish to make an apology to you. Some months ago we reviewed several of your shows, in spite of the fact that we had never climbed to the Acropolis in moonlight or walked with hushed whispers into the presence of the Frari Madonna of Bellini. Now that has been remed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never read a line of the fellow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why doesn't one of these critics that's always talking about how plays should be written sit down and do one himself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "has much of O'Neill's characteristic skill in stage idiom, but it is much less convincing than the same author's _The ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a work of art because it is true. Art lies in the expression of his reaction to the facts. O'Neill's method in _Diff'rent_ is quite the reverse of the artistic. He is, for the moment, merely a scientist. Pity, compassion and all kindred emotions are rigorously excluded. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kid" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How long has this been going on? Each time we leave the theater we expect to see people dancing in the streets because of Chaplin and to meet delegations with olive wreaths hurrying toward Los Angeles. We don't. Unfortunately Americans have a perfect passion for flying into a gr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of black mud along the river, the land for ten miles back...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's so much unhappiness in the world, she says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, but then you never saw-- . Sacha Guitry, who wrote _Deburau_, is alive; yes, indeed, even more than that, for he lives in Paris, and Lionel Atwill is a young actor whose greatest previous success in New York was achieved in the realistic drama of Ibsen. Now, it is possible f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pretty, isn't it? When the fair lady agrees he adds:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a picture of my wife. I should so like to have you meet her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Deburau! Deburau!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a summer's day, with the sun shining, writes Mr. Key," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He began to sing, Key writes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that he had" }, { "from": "human", "value": "that he was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What was Booth like as Hamlet? and he will say" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A gentle pearl-gray breeze was stirring the curtains." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let them run about and shift for themselves, we said airily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The instinct of the child is often more sound than that of the grown-up. He ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm an old woman, said one hearer, as we started to retire in none too good order," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She calls herself a Socialist," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For no man can be free, writes the author of _The Book of Marjorie_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And in another portion of the book we read," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should hate for my son to be afraid, because there are so many things that h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a child, writes Esther P.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is an inexpensive 'toytown bank.' Also an outfit of tickets and uniform with which to play ticket-agent. Encourage him to print paper money and checks and buy him some toy money...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For unless we work together, and in no selfish or exclusive spirit--Good-by to Civilization! It will vanish like dew off the grass. The betterment not only of the British nations and America, but of all mankind, is and must be our object." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I recall here the revealing remark of a German, a member of a commission which, before the war, was traveling in America: 'Yes,' he said, 'we found your railroad cars very comfortable--except the sleeping cars. Our wives don't like to climb into the upper berths.'" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but ain't we going to give any to dear old mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "according to the introduction in the new edition. We are not disposed to dispute that statement after reading the first chapter, in which we found:" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It ought to be read and pondered over. It is true. For our part, we doubt whether the book will prove of any vital aid in solving what newspapers are fond of referring to as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madeleine ought to do something to clear away the mist in minds which confuse prudery and virtue. Even in her most degraded and sinful moments, Madeleine remains a proper person. In telling of her conversation with an associate in the life of shame Madeleine writes," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is time, I think, writes Alpha of the _Plough, in Windfalls_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now the point about the wasp, he writes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of still less moment to the world than the wrongs of the wasp are his motives and int...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Carnal I yell! I yell carnal!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing to be said in its favor, writes Mr. Towns," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems, he adds in another portion of the book," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And consider the tremendous testimonial in favor of tobacco which Mr. Towns has w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bring on your 'lack of appetite.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He works at an artist's drawing table, and, the story continues," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man is a machine, writes Dr. David Orr Edson in _Getting What We Want_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shake well before using, when anybody with half an eye ought to know that it says," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lay on its side in a cool, dry place...