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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we have a degenerate mean environment, the fittest will be the man who is best adapted to degeneracy and meanness; he will survive. That is what is happening now. I believe that the people will one day be capable of altering this basis of society; Nietzsche believed that the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose you go to sleep for a thousand years, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go to Mrs. Rabbit's Garden Party, and describe it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Write a child of seven's account of washing day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Imagine that you are the last man left alive on earth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Die at the age of ninety, and write the paragraph about yourself to the local paper." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Brilliant Student." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did he steal? Why had he no boots? What sort of life has he been forced to lead?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joseph, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I smoke myself, and at your age I smoked an occasional Woodbine. But it isn't really good for a boy, and I hope you won't get into the habit of buying cigs. with your pocket money." }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at that, he cried, pointing to a broken branch on a tree in his garden," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sympathise with you. Had it been my garden I should have sworn possibly harder than you have done. On the other hand, had it been twenty years ago and my kit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stables or the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fall In," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can come in your nighties for all I care," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope that you do your best to make these children realise that there are classes in society; so many of their parents refuse to see the good in other classes!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For my part, I answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ack...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many pence in fifty-seven farthings?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They ought to know their tables," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What tables?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O, they should learn up that; why I can tell you at once what...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "last night. I like the American word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "it is so much more expressive than our" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is commerce, I said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suppose I am a pig-dealer. I hear one day from a friend that pigs will rise in price in a few days. I at once set out on a tour of neighbouring farms, and by nightfall I have bought twenty pigs at the market pr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Foo are you feenished so quick, Jock?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Discipline, it says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The pupils in the Senior Division are intelligent and bright under oral examination, and make an exceedingly good appearance in the class subjects." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "More attention, however, should be paid to neatness of method and penmanship in copybooks and jotters." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Beans's knowledge of dates is wonderful, and his parsing has all the glory of Early Victorian furniture." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll grow out of that, young man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's what I'm afraid of, I said," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, would the gentleman like one, too?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, he whispered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ralph! If you throw any nutshells on that floor Mrs. Findlay will eat you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See what Willie's doing and tell him he musn't. I wonder what he would have replied if the boy had said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why is it wrong to draw a man's face in a drawing book?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Love and Fine Thinking" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to see fair play," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's the dunt! The other returns the touch with the same remark. If he fails to return it he receives a harder dunt on the arm with the words," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And there's the coor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What wud ye hae a man do if his laddie wudna do what he was bidden?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would have the man think very seriously whether he had any right to give the order that was disobeyed. For instance, if you ordered your Jim to stop singing while you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can we do? The home is the Englishman's castle! Anyway, in these days of high explosives, castles are out of date, and it is high time that the castle called home had some airing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Women's place is the home!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I always think that marriage makes a girl a 'has been.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in thought, while not a few are" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi, Jock, it's a lassie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the line:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Absent thee from felicity awhile" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No! You must marry one of my hands, and then your combined wages will set up a home for you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not if they abolished female labour too?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Note that the owner of the factory is getting an income of, say, ten thousand pounds a year. Now, what does he do with the money?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spends it on motor cars," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Buys cigarettes," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, what would all the dressmakers and footmen do if there was no money to pay them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They would do useful work, Tom, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your father works from six to six every day, but if all t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An abomination unto the Lord but a very present help in time of trouble." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, boy, he fired at a sleepy youth," }, { "from": "human", "value": "P--please, sir, it wasna me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very fu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lawson, I would chuck the whole blamed lot out of the elementary school. I don't want children to be trained to make pea-soup and picture frames, I want them to be trained to think. I would cut out History and Geography as subjects." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eh?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would keep Composition and Reading and Arithmetic in the curriculum. Drill and Music would come into the play hours, and Sketching would be an outside hobby for warm days." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where would you bring in the technical subjects?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "H. G. Wells is always asking for better technical schools, more research, more invention. All these are absolutely necessary, but I want more than that; along with science and art I want the thinking part of education to go on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It goes ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see what I am driving at? I want first-class doctors and engineers and chemists, but I want them to think also, to think about things outside their immediate interests. This is the age of the specialist. That's what's wrong with it. Somebody, Matthew Arnold, I think, w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your Country Needs _You_ ... to set it Right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jerusalem! I gasped." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dorothy! Where did you drop from?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm motoring to Edinburgh, she explained," } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, Sandy! Fancy you teaching all these kiddies! Won't you teach me, too?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dorothy, I said severely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dismiss" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know, girls, I'm an actress and this big bad teacher of yours is a very old pal of mine. He isn't such a bad sort really, you know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See her little game, girls? I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you notice that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is very pretty," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very," }, { "from": "human", "value": "P--please, sir, you--you could marry her if you really tried?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And break the other man's heart!" }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't you apply for an inspectorship?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Again, I'm not qualified; I never took the Education Class at Oxford." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Finally, I don't want the job." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sup...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You think you would do all that, said Lawson slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd have a darned good try, anyway, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Getting any eggs just now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Disgusted. That pseudony...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Any profits go to the State," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man, he cried lustily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, said Willie Ramsay," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bigger than Glasgow even," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're going to build huts for thousands of navvies," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't run away with the idea that I am calling Mr. Macnab a scoundrel. He is a decent, honest, good-natured man who wouldn't steal a penny from anyone. It isn't his fault or merit that he is to be rich, it is the system that is bad." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Liars!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are School Teachers Socially Impossible?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Peril and the Pity of the Princes Street Parade, at the undergraduates passing by. It was of no use. No one bothered to reply to my philipp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peter Thomson said on Thursday that it was Lloyd George who said 'Father, I cannot tell a lie,' and he was caned by the master who, by the way, has just been appointed President of the Conservative Association." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mary Brown was late every...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cured by Bunkum's Bilious Backache Bunion Beans example, and beneath his photograph (taken at the age of nineteen; he is fifty-four now) is a glowing testimonial which begins with these words:--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For over a decade I have suffered from an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Love as a subject of the curriculum. The editor may be a misogynist, or he may have been married eight times, yet the poor devil has to sit down and write an editorial beginning:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Love has too long been absent from our schools. Who does ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Henceforward, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on lads, there's a wasp!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "song that is published for school use. I don't see the force of teaching children to be patriotic; the man who imagines that a dominie can teach a bairn to love his neighbour or his country is fatuous. Flag-waving is the last futility of noble minds. The queer thing is that all ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Patriot's main contention is that a man ought to be ready to die for his country. I freely grant that it is a great thing to die for your country, but I contend that it is still greater to live for your country; and the man who tries to live for his country usually earns the epi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I went out to India, I remarked one day to an Anglo-Indian friend at College," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, he said with a smile," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dick, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So long, old sport!" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Imagine that you are an old lady who ordered a duck from Gamage's, and imagine that they sent you an aeroplane in a crate by mistake. Then describe in the first person the feelings of the aviator who found the duck awaiting him at breakfast time." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A few days ago I gave you a ha'penny each, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Write a description of how you spent it, and I'll give sixpence to the one who tells the biggest lie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I took it to the church on Sunday and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's Antonio!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A slider for each of us," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You like a glass, zir, instead of a zlider?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am, or, at least, was, a journalist, I said, and walked on chuckling. Of course he gaped, for he did not know why I chuckled. I was thinking of the reporter sitting in the back seat at a Salvationist Meeting. A Salvation lass bent over him." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hands up all those who would like to go to Heaven!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! Mean to tell me, Willie, that you don't want to go to Heaven?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No bloomin' fear, he muttered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tu quoque!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who loosened that valve?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, it was Jim Steel," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, George Washington, I remarked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a seat in the Cabinet, waiting for you, my...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Talking of Lloyd George, when I was in the Argentine last winter.... I grapple him to my soul with hoops of steel. I can't stand the common or garden liar with his trite expressions...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So the missis is keeping better, old man? Glad to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind, Tam, I heard her say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aw'll aye see ye at the station, ilka mornin' and nicht." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll get merried when Aw'm station mester, Vi," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then we're flittin' to Glesga," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In seven hundred million years, my friends, he said solemnly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Excuse me, mister, but hoo lang did ye say it wud be till that happened?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seven hundred million years, my friend." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weel, by bye, Rachel, ye'll have to gang to anither schule, and ye'll maybe have to work there," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eh? I cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No very much, said Mary," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Men, lay the g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The school was closed to-day for the summer holidays. I have received Form 9b from the Clerk." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cheiro." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Klondike Kit's Revenge has all the dramatic qualities of that great popular success," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon I've a 'ead on me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For of physical and ethical science, no less than of mathematics and the common round of learning, as well as concerning arts, he possessed full knowledge and experience." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome, Signore! Welcome to the Well of St. Clare." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And that is why the name of St. Clare was given to this Well." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Partner of the Father's light, light of light and day of day, we break the dusk of night with psalms; help us now, Thy suppliants. Remove the darkness of our minds; scatter the demon hosts away; expel the sin of drowsiness, lest we be slack in serving Thee." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bells, he pondered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are killing me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man! a man!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On! on! returned Mnaïs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On! on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, ha! the pretty darling! cried one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is as white as a sheet, and his heart beats like a hare the dogs are snapping at. Ægle, sister mine, say, what must be done with him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Neæra mine! Ægl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enough! she cried!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, come, my Adonis!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fie, fie! his senses are benumbed. His coldness offends my charms. He scorns me; avenge me, comrades! Mnaïs, Ægle, Melibœa, avenge your sister!" } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope, Neæra then said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O! my Saviour, dost not Thou hear me say what Thou didst Thyself say to Thy Father, Lead us not, we beseech Thee, into temptation?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For indeed, he said to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man or beast, shrilled Mino," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I command you in the name of the Saviour to say who you are." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My son, replied the old man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am San Satiro! Speak not so...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alas! and I am grown old, for I am but a god, and the centuries have blanched the hairs of my head and of my bosom, and have extinguished the fire of my reins. I was already heavily weighted with years when the Great Pan died, and Jupiter, meeting the same lot he had laid upon S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such is my life, ended the old Satyr." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It flows on pleasantly, gentle and unobtrusive, down all the ages of the world. If a touch of sadness mingles with the joy of it, 'tis because the gods have willed it so. Oh! my son, let us praise t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This Satyr Saint, he reflected," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My sweet, she said, addressing him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Child, child! she said to him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guido, son of Messer Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, was one of the best Logicians the world held, and a most finished Natural Philosopher.... And forasmuch as in some degree he held by the opinion of the Epicureans, it was therefore said among the vulgar folk how that these his spec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hola! Guido mine, he shouted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grammercy! replied Messer Guido, without so much as deigning to turn his head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am away to see my Lady." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alas! he muttered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Guido, my Guido lad! put me out of my pain. Last week you told me you were on your way to visit your Lady in the Church and Cloister of Santa Maria Novella. Ever since I have been turning, turning your words in my head, without fathoming their meaning. I shall have no peace t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweet Guido, he interposed gaily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For that matter, replied Messer Guido," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus, my Patroness! what a pass have his books brought my handsome St. George to! He is good for naught now but to throw away his lance and hold a writing-reed in hand instead." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Folk do not lurk in hiding like that, they said to each other," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A mighty fine gain, they ended up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am she that sleeps within this tomb, and I am called Julia Læta. I lost the light on my marriage-day, at the age of sixteen years, three months and nine days. Since then, whether I am, or am not, I cannot tell. Never question the dead, stranger, for they see naught, and a thic...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The truth I foresaw, hath been made manifest to me. Is it not writ in the Book the Priests use, 'Shall the dead praise Thee, O Lord?' The dead are without thought or knowledge, and the divine Epicurus was well advised when he enfranchised the living from the vain terrors of the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So ho! cried one of them, whose name was Bocca," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And well he may be, put in Messer Doria, who was reputed a wag." }, { "from": "human", "value": "His lady, the Moon, whom he kisses tenderly all night, hath hied her behind the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentle cavaliers, he answered, smiling," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who can doubt now but this Guido is gone mad? He told us we were at home in the graveyard. And to say such a thing, he must needs have lost his wits." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "True it is, replied Messer Betto," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I canno...