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"ref": "1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Subterranean Brotherhood",
"text": "[T]hese men are no more lost souls than we are—are, in fact, woven out of the same yarn and cut from the same cloth.",
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"ref": "1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 15, in Her Father's Daughter",
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"ref": "1997 October 3, Stephen Holden, “Film Review: Casanova Complex”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-04",
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"ref": "2009 January 6, Jeff Israely, “Rome Eyes Russian Orthodox Church Vote”, in Time",
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"word": "cut out of the same cloth"
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"sense": "very similar",
"word": "aus dem gleichen Holz geschnitzt"
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"sense": "very similar",
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"word": "egy fából faragták"
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"english": "berries from the same field",
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