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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and died in 1695, when but twenty-eight years old. Above the door of the western wing of the great seminary is the legend in Latin" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hie evangel; bantur Indi," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here the Indians were evangelized....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The music of the spheres." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lady who sings better than the birds." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dat song I will never forget me, 'Twas song of de leetle bird, When he's fly from its nes' on de tree top, 'Fore rest of de worl' get stirred. Madame she was tole us about it, den start off so quiet an' low, And sing lak de bird on de morning, de poor little small oiseau." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will hold her knitting, she explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And she will think of you when she sees the melon." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Merci bien, Monsieur." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell my little girl, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall make him a quilt!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the daylight saving bill for the pauvre oiseau," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "L'eglise de la bonne St. Anne," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello! aren't you the melon child? she said. Oisette almost fell off from the bench in surprise. But she managed to nod her head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you remember me? I knew you at once. We have often gone out to your place after melons, but they sai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur Tremblent had always liked this little girl when she visited his farm, so he said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you will get permission from your people, you shall ride with us this morning. We ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, please, has it a history? asked Helen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is very ancient, my child, Madame answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In fact it was for years stored in my grandfather's barn under some hay, left there by an English off...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "C'est bien," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "C'est bien." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So, you see, heroism was not confined to the men alone, said Grandmother Tremblent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was as it is now in modern days, the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette Je te plumerai, Je te plumerai la tÍte, Je te plumerai la tÍte, O Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette Je te plumerai." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bon soir, Oisette. Monsieur Tremblent stopped, too, and shook hands with several of the musicians; and Oisette gasped with surprise, for one of them was a cousin of Oisette's mother. This orchestra was composed originally of the members of one family. Five sisters all trained by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome home!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chime, chime, chime, chime," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are to sing in French. Our governess says that will make a pleasing variety," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is what I am to recite," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Four fingers, a thumb, on each little hand; Make five jolly holidays all through ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chime-Chime-Chime-Chime --yes, the story ends here, but the bells still call and call little Oisette to awake, to come to prayers, to attend vespers--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chime-Chime-Chime-Chime." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chime-Chime-Chi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The book's heroine, Blue Bonnet, has the very finest kind of wholesome, honest, lively girlishness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A healthy, natural atmosphere breathes from every chapter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is bound to become popular be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such books as this are an admirable means of stimulating among the young Americans of to-day interest in the story of their pioneer ancestors and the early days of the Republic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The recital of the daring deeds of the frontier is not onl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The author is to be congratulated on having written such an appealing book for girls." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It cannot fail to appeal to the lovers of good things in girls' books." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The diverse characters in the boar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A book sure to please girl readers, for the author seems to understand perfectly the girl character." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a wholesome, hearty story." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "More of such books should be written, books that acquaint young readers with historical personages in a pleasant, informal way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a book that will stir the heart of every boy and will prove interesting as well to the adults." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Melody and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain January." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Melody and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marie." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SOME SAY" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A well told, interesting tale of a high character." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little ones will understand and delight in the stories and poems." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The contents of this splendid volume are evidently intended to demonstrate the fact that work is as good a glad game as play if gone about the right way. There are clever little drawings any one could imitate, and in imitating learn something. There are adventurous tales, fairy ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The whole range of section railroading is covered in the story." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A vivacious account of the varied and often hazardous nature of railroad life." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is a book that can be unreservedly commended ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Boy Scouts of America." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a splendid story of friendship, study and sport, winding up with a perfectly corking double play." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Colonel stories in the Cosy Corner Series," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Little Colonel," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two Little Knights of Kentucky, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Giant Scissors," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A mighty attractive volume in which the owner may record the good times she has on decorated pages, and under the directions as it were of Annie Fellows Johnston." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "changed to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "changed to" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought may be you had the toothache--you kept so quiet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth, madam, have you--has that to do with the question?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hooray for the Impurrur!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Dominie's Log" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Sin That Found Him Out. The hero was a boy called Willie. He never told a lie, and when other boys smote him he turned the other cheek and prayed for them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life to him was one long prayer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No reflections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the log-book." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three R's" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have had education for generations ... and yet we have this." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must examine myself, so that I may find out what manner of man I am." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why the happiness this morning, Violet?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, Willie. Go and do what you do like, but take my advice and do some work; you will enjoy your football all the better for it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By Jove, I'll better not wreck my train or I'll get nine months. Nine months is not punishment, but the lifelong thought:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom Dixon says he loves her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Katie, will you be my lass? I will have you if you will have me--Geordie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tom Dixon" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! when I heard the words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Geordie Steel says he loves...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The grass would be trees to a snail," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A hen in the Kirk," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Majority _never_ has right on its side. _Never_ I say. Every lesson book shouts aloud the words:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The majority is always right." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Day ; every teacher in Britain should drink daily to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Day" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Much more likely that he gave a few thousands to the party funds," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aw learnt the fiddle in a week," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have had enough of money and admiration; I shall go round the villages on an errand of mercy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What would you do to the Germans who committed atrocities in Belgium?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Peter?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please sir, shoot them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cruelty should be punished, eh?" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why aren't you sliding," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why did he salt the slide?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because the farmers do not want their horses to fall," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Children have no votes, I said," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Property in Britain comes before everything. I may steal the life and soul from a woman if I employ her at a penny an hour, and I may get a title for doing so. But if I steal Mr. Thomson's turnips I merely get ten days' hard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You bairns...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The war came about because the Kaiser wanted to be master of Europe, and the German people had no say in the matter at all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are able to think fairly well, and a knowledge of the amount of square miles in Manitoba would not help you to think as brightly as H. G. Wells. So, why learn up stuff that you can get in a dictionary any day?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look what you've done! I cried in vexation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lizzie, I said sadly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "are written over the whole set of volumes. Its aim is evidently to enable boys and girls to gain success ... as the world considers success." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Study hard, it blares forth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John Brown, Practical Chimney Sweep." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It leaves something to the imagination," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hands up, or I fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and logic leads him to suppose that rough is" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I tell him that spelling is important because...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, why do you smoke?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I really don't know, Margaret, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bad habit, I suppose ... just like writing notes to boys." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder, I mused," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boys, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He paused." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Or, he continued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aw'll tell the mester!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chuck a chunk of coal through me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A countryman can heave a sack of potatoes on his back, he said," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bairns are gettin' ower muckle eddication noo-a-days. What eddication does a laddie need to herd kye?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every man for himself is the most cursed saying that was ever said. If we are to allow an idle rich to waste millions yearly, if we ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would my bairns understand it? This morning I cut out Bible instruction and read them the first act. I then questioned them, and found to my delight that they had grasped the theme. It was peculiarly satisfying to me to find that they recognized Dr. Stockmann as a better man tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Humour at Bow Street," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye can keep yer dawmed tattie-chips, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aw'll get them some other place." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Peter Mitchell went to Edinburgh for the day...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Andrew, I said, with a smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aw thocht ye was ane o' they wheezin' Radicals, he explained. Then he added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And what micht yer politics be?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a Ut...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank God that I am not as other men." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, what about the Bible?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friends, I am no follower of Christ. I like fine linen and tobacco, books and comfort. I should be in the slums, but I am not Christlike enough to go there. Goodbye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not believe in this system of education at all. I am a hypocrite ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is Truth? millions of Pilates have asked. It is because we have no standard of Truth that our education is a failure. Each of us gets hold of a corner of the page of Truth, but the trouble is that so many grasp the same corner. It is a corner dirty with thumb-marks ..." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, said one in amazement," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are doing it every day, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This school is old, badly ventilated, overcrowded. It is a danger to your health and mine. Yet, if I asked for a new school, t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is still applied to an illegitimate child. When I think of the damnable cruelty of virtuous married women to a girl who has had a child I want to change the phrase into" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be intemperate! Demand more of the fine things of life. Don't waste time in the beershops, spend your leisure hours persuading your neighbour to help you to impose temperance on your masters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Teachers in slum districts should point out ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No grammar, says the Code," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like that, but I should re-write it thus:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No grammar should be taught this side the Styx." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I and nurse is going to the P...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he called it. I wept and gave him sixpence. To-night I visited the minister." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had a sad case in to-day, he began," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chap with a reddish moustache?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ye...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They can't fight like men," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Women speak too much," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Read the Parliamentary debates," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Women have not the brains," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You blooming Socialists, he said, with a dry laugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite right, Lawson, I said with a laugh. And I added seriously:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You see, my boy, that if you have a theory, you've simply _got_ to think t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you a greater thinker than Balfour?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I have a greater ideal, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And, I added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sure that if Balfour were asked about it he would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's this Aw hear aboot you bein' are o' they Socialists? he demanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aw didna ken that when Aw voted for ye." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you had?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a vote wud ye hae g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye're no dozzent, he said kindly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, Willie Smith was swearing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, he swore!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "came up to-day in a lesson, and I asked what it meant. Four girls told me that their fathers were republicans, but they had no idea of the meaning of the word. One lassie thought that it meant" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the King's name! Why make all this pretence when everyone knows that it is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the Cabinet's name" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor King, you are not allowed to enjoy the sensation of being in a crowd, you are an abstraction, you are behind a barrier of nobility through which no commoner can pass. Come down and have a smoke with me amongst all these typists and clerks. And I expect that every man and wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a difficult thing to be a theorist ... and an honest man at the same time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sirs" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No: their tastes may not be the same as yours." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Feeder-in-Chief" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The constructive Socialist logically declares the teacher master of the situation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "are the kind who" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Name an important event in British History for each of any eight of the following years:--1314, 1688, 1759, &c." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Write an essay of twenty lines or so on any one of these subjects:--School, Holidays, Examinations, Bursaries, Books." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man loses a dog, you find it; write and tell him that you have found it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Shakespeare came back to earth what do you think would be his opinion of Women's Suffrage (refer to _The Taming of the Shrew_) Home Rule, Sweated Labour, the Kaiser?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you read any Utopia? If not, it doesn't matter; write one of y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master Morality ; Nietzsche was merely one who realised his nature. The German religion is undoubtedly the religion of the Old Testament; to them" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madman!" } ]