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"text": "A good time was had by all."
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"text": "I felt sure that I had seen him before."
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"ref": "2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London",
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"ref": "1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, section 24",
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"ref": "1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra",
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"text": "CAESAR (smiling). Of course I had rather you stayed.",
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