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But I deceived her,"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4362c182ce", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_005: But for what fruit would they hear this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But for what fruit would they hear this? 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