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"ref": "2002, John Hanson Mitchell, The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness, page 38",
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"ref": "1908, George Barr McCutcheon, Harrison Fisher, The Man from Brodney's, page 148",
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