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"ref": "1996, Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics: From the Fox and the Hound to the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 85:",
"text": "\"I consider myself a reasonable merman,\" Triton thundered, \"but contact between the merworld and the human world is strictly forbidden. Why did you disobey me and rescue that human?\"",
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"ref": "2010, Frédérick S. Parker, Finding the Kingdom of the Centaurs, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 171:",
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