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"ref": "1902, Eden Phillpotts, The River",
"text": "\"Pride an' ignorance be the yoke-devils as have drawed you into this fix,\" said Chugg bluntly.",
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"ref": "1976, George Richard Marek, The Bed and the Throne",
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