Hint
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Placement
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Person
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Quote
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Racism - sexual comments to proboke Brabantio, and impying that non-Whites are animals.
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1 : 1
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Iago
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'your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.'
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Sexism - To betray the patriarchal system (through marrying independently), you betray the state.
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Brabantio
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'O treason of the blood!'
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Virtues - Othello is confident in his virtues as a person.
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1 : 2
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Othello
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'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly.'
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Racism - Brabantio is conviced that one mixed race couple will collapse the civilised Venitian society.
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Brabantio
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'For if such actions may have passage free, bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.'
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Virtues - Othello is held in high regard by the Venetian Duke.
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1 : 3
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Duke
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'Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman.'
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Racism - Brabantio does not believe Othello could simply 'win' Desdemona, and that she had to have been corrupted.
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Brabantio
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'She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted by spells'
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Virtues - Othello and Desdemona have a pure love based on compassion.
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Othello
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'She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.'
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Virtues - Othello is considered good natured and civil, unrepresentative of his skin colour.
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Duke
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'Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.'
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Deception - Iago convinces Roderigo to fund him for his endeavours.
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Iago
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'Thus do I ever make my fool my purse.'
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Deception - We expect a large naval battle, but instead the Ottoman fleet is removed without a second glance.
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2 : 1
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Gentleman
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'The desperate temperest hath so banged the Turks'
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Virtues - Away from Venice, Othello is complemented regularly.
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Montano
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'tis a worthy governor.'
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Virtues - Desdemona has control over Othello, likely due to their love.
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Cassio
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'our great captain's captain.'
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Sexism - Iago argues that a woman's job is to produce children.
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Iago
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'You rise to play and go to bed to work.'
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Virtues - Othello portrays Desdemona as strong, yet gentle.
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Othello
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'O, my fair warrior!'
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Deception - Iago believes he has a motive for his actions, yet, it conflicts with his other motives of career advancement and racism. Is he decieving the audience?
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Iago
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''For that I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat.'
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Virtues - Othello is further complimented.
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2 : 2
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Herald
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'our noble and valiant general.'
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Virtues - Compliments towards Cassio.
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2 : 3
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Iago
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'He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar.'
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Racism - Argues that Turks are synonomous with savagery and ill-behaviour.
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Othello
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'Are we turned Turks'
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Deception - Repeated throughout the play by a variety of characters. An oxymoron.
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Othello
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'Honest Iago.'
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Deception - By showing that he doesn't want to do harm to Cassio, Othello infers that Iago is watering down the truth to protect Cassio. Iago decieves Othello expertly.
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Iago
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'I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio.'
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Virtues - Cassio cares mostly about his social standing and that is what drives his character.
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Cassio
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'O, I have lost my reputation!'
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Virtues - Othello appears to still love Cassio, yet he is obliged to refuse him.
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3 : 1
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Emilia
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'He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you.'
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Deception - The use of language here by Iago suggests to Othello that Cassio is guilty and a thief, setting that thought into Othello's mind.
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3 : 3
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Iago
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'Cassio, my lord? No, sure I cannot think it that he would steal away so guilty-like.'
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Virtues - Jealousy is seen as a negative force which corrupts and harms, Iago even gives this warning, yet Othello embraces it all the same, and this description prooves accurate.
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Iago
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'O beware, my lord, of jealousy: it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.'
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Virtues - She's an angel, if she were to be false, it would be God mocking its own heralds.
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Othello
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'If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself; I'll not believe it.'
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Deception - True to Othello, if he was wise then he would not be blinded by Iago's 'honsety'.
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Iago
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'I should be wise; for honesty's a fool.'
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Racism - Othello releases his innate self from his suppressed mental blockades.
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Othello
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'Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!'
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Virtues - Othello argues that Desdemona needs to become more chaste, as does their marriage (represented by the hand).
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3 : 4
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Othello
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'This hand of yours requires a sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer.'
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Virtues - Cassio does not want to be seen with Bianca as it would damage his reputation, something he values above love.
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Cassio
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'And think it no addition, nor my wish, to have him see me womaned.'
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Deception - Iago brags about how effective his deception is, how he has ensnared worthy and good characters, all innocent, into his schemes and plots.
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4 : 1
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Iago
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'Thus credulous fools are caught; and many worthy and chaste dames even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach.
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Virtues - Iago implies that it is a whores destiny to beguile many men, yet to fall for one, someone who is typically unattainable.
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Iago
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'tis the strumpets plague to beguile many and be beguiled by one.'
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Virtues - Othello claims that his love has faded, it has hardened and is uncomprimising.
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Othello
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'No, my heart is turned to stone: I strike it and it hurts my hand.'
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Virtues - People would not believe that Othello had fallen so far as to strike his wife.
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Lodovico
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'My lord, this would not be believed in Venice.'
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Virtues - Emilia is confident that Desdemona is innocent.
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4 : 2
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Emilia
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'to wager she is honest, lay down my soul at stake.'
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Deception - Despite Desdemona claiming to be innocent, Othello remains unconvinced, showing how deep Iago's manipulation has struck him.
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Othello
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'I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married with Othello.'
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Deception - Emilia figures out that Othello has been manipulated.
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Emilia
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'The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave.'
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Sexism - Emilia argues that it is men who are to blame for a wives fall.
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4 : 3
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Emilia
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'I do think it is their husbands' faults if wives do fall.'
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Sexism - Emilia argues that women are just as sensible as men are.
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Emilia
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'Let husbands know their wives have sense like them.'
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Deception - Othello believes Desdemona's lover to be dead, both are falsehoods.
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5 : 1
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Othello
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'Minion, your dear lies dead, and your unblest fate lies.'
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Sexism - Othello still values Desdemona's body, and he thinks of her body as valuable still, despite his issues with her person.
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5 : 2
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Othello
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'Yet I'll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.'
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Virtues - Othello believes he's lost his wife, through her death and through her 'adultery'.
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Othello
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'My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife.'
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Virtues - Desdemona dies innocent.
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Desdemona
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'A guiltless death I die.'
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Racism - Through killing his wife, the 'black' in Othello comes out, paralleling the devil.
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Emilia
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'O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil.'
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Virtues - Links to baptism and cleanliness.
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Othello
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'She was false as water.'
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Deception - Emilia figures out Iago's deception before any man and wishes him to suffer.
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Emilia
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'may his pernicious soul rot half a grain a day!'
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Sexism - Emilia stands against Iago and is bound to speak through her independence.
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Emilia
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'I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak.'
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Virtues - Brabantio is hardly mentioned.
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Lodovico
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'I am glad thy father's dead.'
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Virtues - Othello wishes to be cleansed through harsh punishment in hell.
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Othello
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'Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire.'
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Virtues - Othello doesn't see himself as who he was, Iago's manipulation has changed him.
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Othello
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'That he that was Othello: here I am.'
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Deception - Othello believes that Iago should suffer, and that death is too quick for him.
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Othello
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'For in my sense 'tis happiness to die.'
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Deception - Othello acknowledges that he was caught by Iago in his schemes.
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Othello
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'Why he hath ensnared my soul and body?'
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Virtues - Othello doesn't want his final deed to block out all the good he has done, that is not who he is, he's a valiant warrior.
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Othello
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'When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate.'
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Virtues - Othello sees himself as losing the most valuable artifact he could, Desdemona, which was worthier than anything else.
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Othello
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'Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe.'
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