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"ref": "2005, Benedictus de Spinoza, A Theologico-Political Treatise, and a Political Treatise, page xviii",
"text": "He was very careful to cast up his accounts every quarter ; which he did, that he might spend neither more nor less than what he could spend every year.",
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"ref": "2007, J. C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots, page 121",
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"ref": "2008, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon, page 18",
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"ref": "2014, Heather Boyd -, Just a Dream",
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"ref": "2015, Sabrina Jeffries, If the Viscount Falls, page 20",
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