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"text": "When others, with dirty hands, strive to cleanse these psalms, they seem to seek a knot in a bulrush and (to put the matter in a word) while they polish they pollute.",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "keksiä vikoja"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "saivarrella"
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"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "chercher midi à quatorze heures"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "a kákán is csomót keres"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "căuta nod în papură"
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"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "saivarrella"
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"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "chercher midi à quatorze heures"
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"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "a kákán is csomót keres"
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"sense": "to find problems where none exist",
"word": "căuta nod în papură"
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"word": "seek a knot in a bulrush"
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