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"ref": "1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Janet P. Morgan, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, page 141",
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"ref": "2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "2023 September 23, Lauren Indvik, “God is in the details”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3",
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