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"ref": "1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 4, in Essays: Second Series",
"text": "I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show.",
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"ref": "c. 1890, Horatio Alger, chapter 30, in The Tin Box",
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"ref": "1912, William Somerset Maugham, Lady Frederick, act I",
"text": "Lady Frederick: Is it a gambling debt?\nGerald: Yes.\nLady Frederick [ironically]: What they call a debt of honour?\nGerald: I must pay it the day after to-morrow without fail.",
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"ref": "2001 June 24, Anastasia Toufexis, “Brazil Victory for the \"Great Conciliator\"”, in Time, retrieved 2014-08-27",
"text": "[H]e is opposed to the suggestion that Brazil declare a moratorium on its international debts repayments. Said he: \"We must pay what we owe. It is a debt of honor for the nation.\"",
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"ref": "2004 November 27, “Obituaries: Bill Glassco, champion of new writers in the Canadian theatre”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-08-27",
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"ref": "2023 October 10, Senay Boztas, “Frans Timmermans urges European left to unite against right’s climate backlash”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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