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  • An attraction towards money-making, and the calculations needed to work out estate-duty dodging, seemed to me to be all of a piece.

    Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972

  • An attraction towards money-making, and the calculations needed to work out estate-duty dodging, seemed to me to be all of a piece.

    Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972

  • Of these the medical people assured me that not above seven had anything whatever the matter with them; the rest were only feigning sickness, out of mere idleness, and in order to sit doing nothing, while their companions were forced to perform their part of the estate-duty.

    Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

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