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"text": "1835, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (d. 1834), Specimens of the Table Talk\nA nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself."
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"ref": "1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Maagazine, page 263",
"text": "In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.",
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"ref": "2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 90",
"text": "The others will return at night, [...] pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.",
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"ref": "1890, H. E. J. G. Du Bois, “On Magnetic Circuits”, in Philosophical magazine, page 346",
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