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name used to attract the easily deluded
Rizal was made the honorary president of the association, his portrait hung in all the meeting-halls, and the magic of his name used to attract the easily deluded masses, who were in a state of agitated ignorance and growing unrest, ripe for any movement that looked anti-governmental, and especially anti-Spanish.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

not understand that a the evil deeds
Do ye not understand, that a’ the evil deeds o’ a’ his evil life will be coming back now on this man, and setting themselves in array against him, and no’ among the least o’ them the evil he brought on her and hers?
— from Allison Bain; Or, By a Way She Knew Not by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

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