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persons regard exaggerated praise necessary
Many persons regard exaggerated praise necessary to the advancement of youth.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

part réunis en petites nations
157–158: “une multitude de tribus à part, réunis en petites nations de sept ou huit, dix ou douze villages, ce sont: Upatrico, Mochila, Guagarispa, El Vallecillo, et d’autres qui son près des montagues.”
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

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