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"ref": "1881, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 271",
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"ref": "2013, Lord Frederick J.D. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893)",
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"ref": "1953, Lesley Gordon, Peepshow Into Paradise: A History of Children's Toys",
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"ref": "2012, Avram Davidson, Rogue Dragon",
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"text": "Addressing this cavalier Western attitude, Dr. Muniini K. Mulera warned \"self-righteous moralists informed by hindsight\" not to ask how anyone could be so gullible. \"Labelling these people stupid nut-heads will not do,\" he wrote in the Monitor.",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, Avram Davidson, Rogue Dragon",
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