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},
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"ref": "1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:",
"text": "People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily, in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming Emilys",
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