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"ref": "a. 1689, Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister",
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"ref": "1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly",
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"text": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan\n...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War."
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"text": "1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men\nBut it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction."
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