JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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{"chunk": 8, "story": 1,
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"summary": "The father has looked over the son's growing monthly expenses, which show no honours to justify them, and warns him that the old man will not pay once college ends.",
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"predicament": "A young person spending freely on someone else's money is warned that the habit will break them once the support stops.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "bring your spending down to what you will be able to earn", "outcome": "the sooner you do, the easier life will be", "quote": "The sooner you adjust your spending to what your earning capacity will be, the easier they will find it to live together.", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 9, "story": 1,
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"summary": "The son will start at the bottom, at the mailing desk for eight dollars a week, like anyone else; there is room at the top but no elevator.",
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"predicament": "Someone with a family tie to the owner learns they must start at the bottom like everyone else and earn each step up.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "hand a favoured newcomer ready-made success", "outcome": "it does them no good and harms the firm", "quote": "I can't hand out any ready-made success to you. It would do you no good, and it would do the house harm.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "do the lowest work properly before reaching for higher work", "outcome": "nobody who has skipped it is fit for the work above it", "quote": "the man who hasn't licked stamps isn't fit to write letters", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 10, "story": 1,
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"summary": "A start is all the father can give; after that the son must fight his own way forward, learning earning before spending, because the saver is the one who buys into the firm.",
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"predicament": "Someone given a start must decide whether to build on it by thrift or to spend ahead of what they earn.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "keep saving up and expenses down", "outcome": "the saver ends up buying an interest in the business", "quote": "It's the man who keeps saving up and expenses down that buys an interest in the concern.", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "spend money as fast as it comes", "outcome": "the spendthrift gets only part value from every dollar and is always short", "quote": "Pay day is always a month off for the spend-thrift, and he is never able to realize more than sixty cents on any dollar that comes to him.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 11, "story": 1,
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"summary": "Young men alone think recklessness with money makes them good fellows; the father calls the man generous with unearned money the meanest alive, and says the same ambition has filled his office with second-rate clerks.",
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"predicament": "Among free-spending companions, someone fears that being careful with money will get them thought mean.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "spend freely to be thought a good fellow", "outcome": "those who do stay second-rate clerks", "quote": "That same ambition to be known as a good fellow has crowded my office with second-rate clerks, and they always will be second-rate clerks.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 12, "story": 1,
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"summary": "The father started on two dollars a week and knew every penny's worth; a butcher who charged the same for a fine roast and a poor one had no sense of values and is now very poor.",
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"predicament": "Someone works hard and willingly but prices things carelessly, and so never gets ahead however much they toil.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "price and trade without a clear sense of what things are worth", "outcome": "even a hard worker ends up poor", "quote": "Bill has always been a big, healthy, hard-working man, but to-day he is very, very poor.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 13, "story": 1,
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"summary": "Some clerks spend their energy devising reasons to draw ahead on their pay; if they spent half of it thinking for the firm they would double their salaries and rise.",
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"predicament": "Someone always short before pay day spends their energy seeking advances instead of thinking about the work that pays them.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "put your energy into thinking for the firm instead of seeking advances on your pay", "outcome": "you could double your pay and your employer's profits within a year", "quote": "they could double their salaries and my profits in a year", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 14, "story": 1,
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"summary": "The son will say he must do as the others do; the father answers that the follower buys at the top and loses, while the one who thinks for himself ends up a director.",
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"predicament": "Someone is pressed to do as everyone around them does and must decide whether to think and act for themselves instead.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "do things just because everyone around you does them", "outcome": "you stay poor and serve others all your life", "quote": "The boy who does anything just because the other fellows do it is apt to scratch a poor man's back all his life.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "think and act for yourself, against the crowd", "outcome": "you end up in the directors' meetings", "quote": "It's the fellow who has the spunk to think and act for himself", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 15, "story": 1,
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"summary": "An old steer at the packing house leads each new herd up the runway to the killing pens and slips away at the top; every crowd of boys has one, and the son should keep away from any crowd following him.",
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"predicament": "A group of companions is following a charming leader who will slip away when trouble comes and leave them to pay for it.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "keep away from a crowd following a smooth leader, even if it leaves you alone", "outcome": "the followers are led into trouble the leader himself escapes", "quote": "If you find your crowd following him, keep away from it. There are times when it's safest to be lonesome.", "stance": "do"}]}
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