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"ref": "1899, Horatio Alger, chapter 8, in Mark Mason's Victory",
"text": "\"I don't care to rob you of this bread. Aunt Jane. It's too rich for my blood. . . . I'd rather take my supper at the cheapest restaurant on the Bowery.\"",
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"ref": "1903, Andy Adams, chapter 24, in The Log of a Cowboy",
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"ref": "1921, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in The Mysterious Rider",
"text": "\"Smoke! Me? I'll give you a hoss right now for a cigar. I git one onct a year, mebbe.\"\n\"Here's a box I've been packin' for long,\" replied Wade, as he handed it up to Billings. \"They're Spanish, all right. Too rich for my blood!\"",
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"ref": "2001 June 24, Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele, “The Empire Of The Pigs”, in Time",
"text": "It was not just Oklahoma's subsidies that persuaded Seaboard to relocate. The Albert Lea work force was unionized; wages had risen to $19,100 a year—still $3,100 below their level in 1983, but too rich for Seaboard's blood.",
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