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"text": "His speech of acceptance was brief but moving.",
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"ref": "a. 1637, Ben Jonson, “Discoveries”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, volume 2, London: Richard Bishop, published 1641",
"text": "The briefe ſtyle is that which expreſſeth much in little.",
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"ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest",
"text": "She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.",
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"ref": "2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, page 182",
"text": "If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.",
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