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"ref": "2011, Ole Benedictow, What Disease was Plague?, page 286",
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"ref": "2016, Ruifu Yang, Andrey Anisimov, Yersinia pestis: Retrospective and Perspective, page 111",
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"text": "Suffice it that all that is most worthless in Europe may be seen gathered round the gaming-tables at Monte Carlo. The artist who did these drawings has been there. Well, I thank Heaven we have no such plague-spot in this fair England of ours.",
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"ref": "1937, Robert Theodore Gunther, Early science in Oxford, page 135",
"text": "He turned the worst plague spot in Oxford, with its plague pit where lay 'filth, rotten corpses, and intestines of corpses', the dump of the refuse of the town, 'where thieves and malefactors used to lie in wait for opportunities of thieving, homicide, and other intolerable evils', into a splendid home for classical learning in which good Churchmen were to be trained.",
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"ref": "1956, John D. Bright, Kansas: The First Century - Volume 2, page 440",
"text": "He is the human hyena and moral leper who runs the scurrilous, venal, unspeakable rag around on Fifth Avenue, a creature whose base, degraded nature has made him a portable plague spot wherever he goes.",
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},
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