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"ref": "1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527",
"text": "Let it abe, I say.",
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"ref": "1864, Charles Dickens, Household Words, page 186",
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"ref": "1885, Charles Gibbon, Heart's Delight, page 154",
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