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"ref": "1798, Thomas Malthus, chapter 1, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, London: J. Johnson, page 10",
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"ref": "1547, Andrew Boorde, chapter 3, in A Compendyous Regyment or a Dyetary of Healthe, London: William Powell",
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"ref": "1652, Anthony Burgess, Spiritual Refining, London: Thomas Underhill, Sermon 119, page 688",
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"ref": "1667, George Sikes, chapter 15, in The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomiz’d, London, section 2, page 77",
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"ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, chapter 2, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, volume book 2, London: E. Dod, page 63",
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"ref": "1958, Han Suyin, chapter 11, in The Mountain Is Young, New York: Putnam, page 341",
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"ref": "1976, Don DeLillo, chapter 3, in Ratner's Star, New York: Vintage, 1980, page 46",
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"ref": "2006, E. O. Wilson, chapter 6, in The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, volume Part 1, New York: Norton, page 59",
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"ref": "1794, Erasmus Darwin, chapter 7, in Zoonomia, volume 1, London: J. Johnson, section 14, page 123",
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"ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in A Tale of Two Cities, volume book 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 204",
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"ref": "1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 3, in The Caine Mutiny, volume part 1, New York: Doubleday, page 27",
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"ref": "1652, Anthony Burgess, Spiritual Refining, London: Thomas Underhill, Sermon 119, page 688",
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"ref": "1667, George Sikes, chapter 15, in The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomiz’d, London, section 2, page 77",
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"ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, chapter 2, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, volume book 2, London: E. Dod, page 63",
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"sense": "to make long",
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"ref": "1958, Han Suyin, chapter 11, in The Mountain Is Young, New York: Putnam, page 341",
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"ref": "2006, E. O. Wilson, chapter 6, in The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, volume Part 1, New York: Norton, page 59",
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