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"text": "Thus, revelling amidst the wrecks of poor, feeble, helpless, ruined woman, man rides roughshod over his slaughtered victim, (Jehu like), saying, \"I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst.\"",
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