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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 people are mostly of the slave variety, and that a better state of affairs could only come about through the breeding of Supermen ... masters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The best shall rule," } ]
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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." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make a Mr. James Smith write a letter to _The Scotsman_ saying that he saw a cow smoking a cigar one night; then write the replies. One boy made a William Thomson suggest that a man must have been standing beside the cow in the darkness. Smith replied that this was impossible, for any man standing beside a cow would be a farmer or a cattleman, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "a teacher? Are teachers not born like poets? I think they are. I have seen untrained teachers at work, and I have seen trained teachers; I never observed a scrap of difference. All I would say to a young teacher is:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ask questions. Ask why there is a fence round the field, ask why there is a fence round that tree in the field, then ask whether any plant or tree has a natural fence of its own." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A good teacher will begin a lesson on Cromwell, touch, in passing, Jack Johnson, Charlie Chaplin, Votes for Women, guinea pigs, ghosts, and finish up with an enquiry into Protective Coloration of Animals." } ]
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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", "value": "Hamlet cramp." } ]
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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 kite, well, I should have done exactly what the boy did. Good morning." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You might convey to your parents, I said," } ]
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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 acknowledge one aristocracy--the aristocracy of intellect. I teach my children to have respect for thinking." } ]
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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 sixty-nine farthings are." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You ought to know this," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must learn not to talk in school," } ]
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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 price. Next morning pigs have doubled in price, and these farmers naturally want to shoot me. Why don't they shoot me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They would be hanged," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because they would buy pigs in the same way if they had the chance," } ]
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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," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear that the continual holding of my nose to the grindstone will destroy my perspective." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll find that experience doesn't destroy perspective." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Experience, I cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, said Simpson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Man, I was teaching laddies before your father and mother met," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you saw a lad and a lass making love would you arrange that he should sit near her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good gracious, no! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What has that got to do with the subject." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But why not give them chances to spoon?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why not? If a teacher encouraged that sort of thing, why, it might lead to anything!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Exactly, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I could give you instances--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want them particularly, I interrupted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My main point is that experience has made you a funk. Pass the baccy, Mac." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mean to tell me that's how you teach? cried Simpson." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How in all the world do you do for discipline?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do without it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My goodness! that's the limit! May I ask why you do without it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a purely personal matter, I answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want anyone to lay down definite rules for me, and I refuse to lay down definite rules of conduct for my bairns." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how in all the earth do you get any work done?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Work, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, I remarked mildly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then our Scotch education is all in vain?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Speaking generally, it is." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Young man, he said severely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look what Germany has done with work and knowledge and discipline!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then why all this bother to crush a State that has all the virtues?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It isn't the discipline we are trying to crush; it is the militarism." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good! I cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad to hear it. That's what I want to do in Scotland; I want to crush the militarism in our schools, and, as most teachers call their militarism discipline, I curse discipline." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's all rubbish, you know," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No it isn't. If I leather a boy for making a mistake in a sum, I am no better than the Prussian officer who shoots a Belgian civilian for crossing the street. I am equally stupid and a bully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you allow carelessness to go unpunished?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do. You see I am a very careless devil myself. I'll swear that I left your garden gate open when I came in, Mac, and your hens will be all over the road." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You seem to think that slovenliness is a virtue," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't, really, but I hold that it is a natural human quality." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are your pupils slovenly?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lots of 'em are. You're born tidy or you aren't." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When these boys go out to the workshop, what then? Will a joiner keep an apprentice who makes a slovenly job?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If he is slovenly he won't think," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you are wrong. Personally, I am a very lazy man; I have my library all over the floor as a rule. Yet, though I am lazy physically I am not lazy mentally. I hold that the really lazy teacher is your ring the bell at nine sharp" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Man, I'd like to see your school!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not? Come up tomorrow morning," }, { "from": "human", "value": "First rate! he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be there at nine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Better not, I said with a smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fall in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don't line them up and march them in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I used to, but I've given it up, I confessed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To tell the truth I'm not enamoured of straight lines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I couldn't tolerate this row," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It isn't so noisy as your golf club on a Saturday night, is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the idea?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's the only boy who is keen on the war news," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, I took _The Four Feathers_ home and my mother began to read them; she thinks she'll finish them by Sunday. Is anybody reading _The Invisible Man_?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you let them do as they like?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the upper classes," } ]
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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 putting them in my pooch," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good! Write down this sum." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are the others doing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Margaret Steel and Violet Brown are reading, I said promptly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Annie Dixon is playing fivies on the sand, Jack White and Bob Tosh are most likely arguing about horses, but the other boys are reading, we'll go and see." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the scamps haven't the decency to hide it when you appear!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haven't the fear," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's all very pleasant and picnicy, but eating nuts and sweets in class!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Makes your right arm itch?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It does, he said with a short laugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Man, do you never get irritated?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sometimes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! He looked relieved." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So the system isn't perfect?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good heavens! I cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think I am? A saint from heaven? You surely don't imagine that a man with nerves and a temperament is always able to enter into the moods of bairns! I get ratty occasionally, but I generally blame myself. I sent a girl for my bugle and sounded the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dismiss." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you do now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have a fill, I said," } ]
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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 coordly!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's the dunt!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Welsh didn't know the rules. After this you should shake hands as you do in boxing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ye wudna hit Jim Steel! Welsh had no alternative but to reply:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wud Aw no! Straightway Geordie had run off to Steel saying:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hi! Jim! Peter Welsh says he'll fecht ye!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob Young cud aisy fecht ye and ca' yer nose up among yer hair! I, as a man of honour, had to reply:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aw'll try Bob Young ony day he likes!" } ]
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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 were reading, you would be taking an unfair advantage of your years and size. From what I know of Jim he would certainly stop singing if you asked him to do so as a favour." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aw dinna believe in askin' favours o' ma laddies," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yet you ask them of other laddies. You don't collar Fred Thomson and shout: 'Post that letter at once!' You say very nicely: 'You might post that letter like a good laddie,' and Fred enjoys posting your letter more than posting a ton of letters for his own father." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Goad! Ye're quite richt, dominie!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As a boy, I continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hated being set to weed the garden, though I spent hours helping to weed the garden next door. A boy likes to grant favours." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aye, said Brown," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I said after the laughter had died," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, I think that the father is the curse of the home. (Laughter.) The father never talks to his son as man to man. As a result a boy suppresses much of his nature, and if he is left alone with his father for five minutes he feels awkward, though not quite so awkward as the father does. You find among the lower animals that the father is of no importance; indeed, he is looked on as a danger. Have you ever seen a bitch flare up when the father comes too near her puppies? Female spiders, I am told, solve the problem of the father by eating him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What aboot the mothers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mothers are worse, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fathers usually imagine that they have a sense of justice, but mothers have absolutely no sense of justice. It is the mother who cries, 'Liz, ye lazy slut, run and clean your brother's boots, the poor laddie! Lod, I dinna ken what would happen to you, my poor laddie, if your mother wasna here to look after you.' You mothers make your girls work at nights and on Saturdays, and you allow your boys to play outside. That is most unjust. Your boys should clean their own boots and mend their own clothes. They should help in the washing of dishes and the sweeping of floors." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wud ye say that the mother is the curse o' the hame, too?" } ]
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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": "I was thinking of the Calcutta mills where labour is dirt cheap," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It comes to that," } ]
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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": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, Mr. Bruce gives money to the infirmary," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He keeps it in a box beneath the bed," } ]
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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 the footmen and chauffeurs and grooms and gamekeepers were doing useful work, your father would only need to work maybe seven hours a day. See? In Britain there are forty millions of people, and the annual income of the country is twenty-four hundred million pounds. One million of people take half this sum, and the other thirty-nine millions have to take the other half." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, said Tom," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am with the majority. For once the majority has right on its side." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No encumbrances, says the ad. Bruce has a family of at least a dozen, and he possibly thinks that he has earned the right to talk of" } ]
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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 funny thing happened to-day," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was a little bit irritated, and I shouted at a boy, 'Who wrote _Hamlet_?' The little chap was flustered. 'P--please, sir, it wasna me!' he stuttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I suppose the little devil had done it after all!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's all very well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I have a scheme," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good! Cough it up, my son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Lawson, it's like this, my scheme could only be a success if the economic basis of society were altered. So long as one million people take half the national yearly income you can't have any decent scheme of education." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right O! said Lawson cheerfully," } ]
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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?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They'd come in incidentally. For instance, I could teach for a week on the text of a newspaper report of a fire in New York." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fire would light up the whole world, so to speak," } ]
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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?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Each school would have a workshop where boys could repair their bikes or make kites and arrows, but there would not be any formal instruction in woodwork or engineering. Technical education would begin at the age of sixteen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Six what?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sixteen. You see my pupils are to stay at school till they are twenty. You are providing the cash you know. Well, at sixteen the child would be allowed to select any subject he liked. Suppose he is keen on mechanics. He spends a good part of the day in the engineering shop and the drawing room--mechanical drawing I mean. But the thinking side of his education is still going on. He is studying political economy, eugenics, evolution, philosophy. By the time he is eighteen he has read Nietzsche, Ibsen, Bjornson, Shaw, Galsworthy, Wells, Strindberg, Tolstoi, that is if ideas appeal to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, I don't say that one man in a hundred will read Ibsen. You will always have the majority who are averse to thinking if they can get out of it. These will be good mechanics and typists and joiners in many cases. My point is that every boy or girl has the chance to absorb ideas during their teens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you make it compulsory? For instance, that boy Willie Smith in your school; do you think that he would learn much more if he had to stay at school till he was twenty?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't force anyone to stay at school, but to-day boys quite as stupid naturally as Smith stay at the university and love it. A few years' rubbing shoulders with other men is bound to make a man more alert. Take away, as you have done for argument's sake, the necessity of a boy's leaving school at fourteen to earn a living and you simply make every school a university." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And it isn't three weeks since I heard you curse universities!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm thinking of the social side of a university, I explained." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is good. The educational side of our universities is bad because it is mostly cram. I crammed Botany and Zoo for my degree and I know nothing about either; I was too busy trying to remember words like Caryophylacia, or whatever it is, to ask why flowers droop their heads at night. So in English I had to cram up what Hazlitt and Coleridge said about Shakespeare when I should have been reading _Othello_. The university fails because it refuses to connect education with contemporary life. You go there and you learn a lot of rot about syllogisms and pentameters, and nothing is done to explain to you the meaning of the life in the streets outside. No wonder that Oxford and Cambridge dons write to the papers saying that life has no opening for a university man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I thought that you didn't want education to produce a practical man. You wanted a theoretical chimney-sweep, didn't you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The present university turns out men who are neither practical nor theoretical. I want a university that will turn out thinkers. The men who have done most to stimulate thought these past few years are men like Wells and Shaw and Chesterton; and I don't think that one of them is a 'varsity man.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can't run a world on thought," } ]
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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 on now." } ]
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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, wanted a man who knew everything of something and something of everything. It's a jolly good definition of education." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is the idea of the Scotch Code," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, perhaps it is. They want our bairns to learn tons of somethings about everything that doesn't matter a damn in life." } ]
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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 this woman from a disreputable profession is making advances to me? She really wants me to kiss her, you know. She--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guid nicht the noo." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Butterfly, indeed, you old bluebottle!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, asked Violet," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid not," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, you should marry her, and then she'll always be here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She loves another man, Vi, I said ruefully, and when Vi whispered to Katie Farmer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a shame!" } ]
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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": "human", "value": "Please, sir, it wouldn't matter for him, we don't know him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why! I cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, she said after a while," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You wee bissom! You don't care a rap about me; all you want is that I should marry an actress. You want my wife to come and teach you ragtimes and tangoes!" } ]
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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 suppose, said Lawson," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very probably, but some of them probably get in straight. Naturally, you cannot get geniuses by wire-pulling; the chap who uses influence to get a job is a third-rater always." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I pulled wires to get into my job," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's all right, I said cheerfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've pulled wires all my days." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, I added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't do it again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Caught religion?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not quite. The truth is that I have at last realised that you never get anything worth having if you've got to beg for it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's about the softest job I know, whether you have to beg for it or not. The only job that beats it for softness is the kirk," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't exactly call it a soft job, Lawson; a rotten job, yes, but a soft job, no. Inspecting schools is half spying and half policing. It isn't supposed to be you know, but it is. You know as well as I do that every teacher starts guiltily whenever the inspector shoves his nose into the room. Nosing, that's what it is." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You would make a fairly decent inspector," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thanks, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't mean that. Suppose you had to examine my school how would you do it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would come in and sit down on a bench and say: 'Just imagine I am a new boy, and give me an idea of the ways of the school. I warn you that my attention may wander. Fire away! But, I say, I hope you don't mind my finishing this pie; I had a rotten breakfast this morning.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go on," } ]
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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 pseudonym damns the teaching profession utterly and irretrievably. Again and again letters appear, and very seldom does a teacher sign his own name. Naturally, a letter signed with a pseudonym isn't worth reading, for a moral coward is no authority on inspectors or anything else. It sickens me to see the abject cringing cowardice of my fellow teachers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Disgusted would no doubt defend himself by saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a wife and family depending on me and I simply can't afford to offend the inspector." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Disgusted and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rural School and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Vindex" } ]
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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," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please, sir, they'll maybe knock down the school and have a mine here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They won't, I said firmly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Macnab of Lappiedub will lose all his land," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He didn't seem sad when I saw him this morning," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe he's tired of farming," } ]
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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 philippics, and I had to sit down and write scathing replies to my own articles. I could never bring my circulation up to the watermark of a previous editor who had written editorials on such bright topics as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Medical Congress and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Work of the International Academic Committee." } ]
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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 morning this week." }, { "from": "human", "value": "John Mackenzie is at present gathering potatoes at Mr. Skinnem's farm, and is being paid a shilling a day of ten hours. Mr. Skinnem has been made an elder of the Parish Kirk." } ]
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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 excess of Uric Acid, from Neurotic Dyspepsia, and from Optical Derangements. Until I discovered that marvellous panacea...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, i will be oblidged if you will let peter away at three oclock tonight hoping that you are well as this leaves me i am your obidt servent peter Macannish." } ]
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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 not remember with holy tenderness his first kiss?..." } ]
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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 these titled men who spout about Imperialism and Patriotism, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make the Foreigner Pay" } ]
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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 epithet" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Traitor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do they know of England who only England know?" } ]
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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!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lovely!" } ]
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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", "value": "Dear Mr. Gamage, I have not opened the basket, but it seems to be an ostrich that you have sent. What will I feed it on?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you think I am going to risk my life on the machine you sent you are wrong. It hasn't got a petrol tank." } ]
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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 put it in the clecshun bag." } ]
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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": "Please, sir, it's one of them changing kind," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By George, so it is, Katie! I cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought they were dead long since." } ]
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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", "value": "Are you saved, my friend?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a journalist," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O! I beg your pardon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only believe! one of them used to say when he met you on the road; the other one had a shorter salutation:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glory! he shouted at you fiercely. Incidentally, the village was a hotbed of petty strife when they departed. And the young women who had stood up to give their" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Testimony" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mind you, Aw was gaein' alang the road, and Aw had just been gieing ma testimony, and it was gye dark and Aw was by ma leensome. Weel, a' at eence something fell into ma hand, and Aw thocht that it was a message frae the Loard; so Aw just grippit ma hand ticht, an' Aw didna look to see fat it wuz. Fan Aw got hame Aw lookit to see fat wuz in ma hand, an' d'ye ken fat it wus?... a button aff ma jaicket!" } ]
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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": "I think that most wretched preachers are cradled into preaching through conceit. It is thrilling to have an audience hang upon your words; we all like the limelight. Usually we have to master a stiff part before we can face the audience. Preaching needs no preparation, no thinking, no merit; all you do is to stand up and say:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Deara friendsa, when I was in the jimmynasium at Peebles, a fellow lodger of mine blasphemeda. From that daya, deara friendsa, that son of the devila nevera prospereda. O, friendsa! If you could only looka into your evila heartsa...." } ]
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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 lad." } ]
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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 hear it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your singing has improved wonderfully, my dear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was kept late at the office," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All or Nothing! We all compromise, and compromise is the worst lie of all. Compromise I can pardon, but not gush. I know men who could say to old greasy-fist:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Man, I'm glad to see you looking so well!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aw saw a bull doon the road the nicht." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It wasna a bull; it was a coo." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are ye gaein' awa?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yus, said Tam savagely," } ]
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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." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank Goad! he gasped," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aw thocht ye said seven million." } ]
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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 gun! and when I was twenty yards off he shouted" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fire!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, sir, he cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it usual, Colonel, I asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The band was all killed at Mons, he said," } ]
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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! Ægle replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not so! said Melibœa." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That were making him pay too dear for his curiosity and the pleasure he has had in surprising our frolic. Enough for this time to inflict a light chastisement. Say, shall we give him a good whipping?" } ]
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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 loud, for fear of frightening the birds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Forasmuch, old man, as you shrank not before the dread sign of the Cross, I cannot hold you to be a demon or some foul spirit escaped out of Hell. But if verily and indeed you are a man, as you say you are, or rather the soul of a man sanctified by the deeds of a good life and by the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, expound, I pray you, the mystery of your goat's horns and your shaggy limbs ending in those black, cloven hoofs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My son, the nature of men and animals, of plants and stones, is the secret of the immortal gods, and I know as little as yourself what is the reason of these horns wherewith my brow is decked, and which the Nymphs used in olden days to wind about with garlands of flowers. I cannot tell you the meaning of the two wrinkled folds that droop from my neck, nor why I have the feet of a wanton goat. But I would have you know, my son, there was once in these woods a race of women having horned brows like mine and shaggy thighs. Yet were their bosoms round and white, and their belly and polished loins shone in the light. The sun was young then, and loved to fleck them with his golden arrows, as they lay beneath the shady foliage. They were very fair, my son; but alas! they have vanished from the woods, every one. My mates have perished likewise, and I am left lonely, the last of my tribe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would fain know your age, old man, and your lineage and country." } ]
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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 Saturn, was dethroned by the Galilean. Since then I have dragged out an ever-flagging life, so feeble and languid that at last it fell out I died, and was entombed. And verily I am now but the shadow of myself. If I still exist a little, it is because nothing ever really perishes, and none is suffered altogether to die out. Death must never be more perfect and complete than life. Beings lost in the Ocean of Things are like the waves you may watch, my child, rising and falling in the Adriatic Sea. They have neither beginning nor end, they are born and die insensibly. Insensibly as the waves, my soul passes. A faint far-off memory of the satyr girls of the Golden Age yet brightens my eyes, and on my lips float soundlessly the ancient hymns of praise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes! you may indeed be a goat-foot, he told him gravely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My son, when I was young, I was no more used to lie than the sheep whose milk I sucked or the he-goats with which I would butt in the joy of my strength and beauty. Lies were unknown In those times, nor had the sheep's fleece yet learned to assume factitious hues; and my soul has remained unchanged from that day to this. See, I go naked as in the golden age of Saturn; and my spirit is veiled as little as my body. I am no liar. And why indeed should you deem It a thing so extraordinary, my son, that I have become a Saint in the train of the Galilean, albeit no offspring of the first mother some name Eve and others Pyrrha, and whom it is very meet to reverence under either title? Nay! for that matter, neither is St. Michael woman-born. I know him, and at times we have talks together, he and I. He tells me of the days when he was an ox-herd on Mount Garganus...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot suffer you to say St. Michael was an ox-herd, because he guarded the cattle of a man whose name was Garganus, the same as the Mountain. But there, I would fain learn, old man, how you were made a Saint." } ]
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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 the gods, masters of the universe!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I understand now the meaning of what I saw, during that evil night, in the Chapel of San Michele. Still one point remains dark to my mind. Tell me why, old man, the Nymphs who, dwell with you, and couple with the fauns, changed into old women of squalid ugliness when they came nigh me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas! my son, answered the Saint," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old man! if what you say is true, and you have won to blessedness by mysterious ways, if it is true--however absurd--that you are a Saint, how comes it you house in your tomb with these phantoms which know not to praise God, and which pollute with their indecencies the temple of the Lord? Answer me, old man!" } ]
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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 speculations were only pursued for to discover if it might be there was no God." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To the Gods of the Lower World.--I was not. I remember. I am not and I heed not. I, Donnia Italia, a maid of twenty, rest here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See, yonder is Messer Guido, son of the Lord Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. 'Tis a very St. George for comeliness, pardi!" } ]
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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 till you have given me an explanation of them. I beseech you, tell me what you meant--so far, that is, as your discretion shall suffer you, seeing the matter doth concern a lady." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Friend! said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tis at the least, said Messer Betto," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If needs be, answered Messer Guido," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Per Bacco! but I never guessed the riddle! Friend Guido, you have the subtlest wit under the red lily of Florence. I heartily commend your taking to wife so high a dame. Of a surety, will spring of this union a numerous progeny of canzones, sonnets and ballades. I promise to baptize you these pretty babes to the sound of my flute, with dainty mottoes galore and gallant devices. I am the more rejoiced at this spiritual wedlock, seeing it will never hinder you, when the time comes, to marry according to the flesh some fair and goodly lady of the city." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay! you are out, returned Messer Guido." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They that celebrate the espousals of the mind should leave carnal marriage to the profane vulgar, which includes the great Lords, the Merchants and the Handicraftsmen. If like me you had known my Diotima, you would have learned, friend Betto, that she doth distinguish two sorts of men, on the one hand such as, being fruitful only by the body, strive but for that coarse and commonplace immortality that is won by the generation of children, on the other they whose soul conceives and engenders what is meet for the soul to produce, to wit the Good and Beautiful. My Diotima hath willed I should be of the second sort, and I will not go against her good pleasure, and copy the mere brutes that breed and procreate." } ]
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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 thick night environs them. 'Tis said that such as in life knew the cruel joys of Venus roam the glades of a dense forest of myrtles. For me who died a virgin, I sleep a dreamless sleep. They have graven two Loves on the stone of my sepulchre. One gives mortals the light of day; the other quenches it in their tender eyes for ever. The countenance of both is the same, a smiling countenance, for birth and death are two twin brothers, and all is joy to the Immortal Gods. I have spoken." } ]
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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 life to come." } ]
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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 hills to sleep with some shepherd swain. He is eat up with jealousy; look you, how green he is!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay! nay! Messer Doria, returned Bocca," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fie! Out upon the vile necromancer! exclaimed Messer Giordano, crossing himself;" } ]
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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 cannot imagine what he meant to have us understand by talking in such a sort. But he is used to expressing himself in dark sayings and subtle parables. He hath tossed us a bone this time must be opened to find the marrow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardi! ejaculated Messer Giordano;" } ]