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You bought poisonous mushrooms,” Mahir said, blinking at him, “from somewhere called a murdergarden?” Francis shrugged and said again, “They have a little shop.
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Jessica Townsend (Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #2))
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No, Francis, I got it from the shop like a normal person.
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Jessica Townsend (Nevermoor / Wundersmith / Hollowpox (Nevermoor, #1-3))
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Francis also did everything in his power to get his people to stay at the bottom or at the edge and never at the top. He didn’t even want his friars to be priests/clergy. He said, “You can’t preach the gospel if you’re part of the structures of power.
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Mark Townsend (Diary of a Heretic: The Pagan Adventures of a Christian Priest)
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Louisiana's outrageous Senator Huey P. Long launched his Share Our Wealth Society in January 1934 with promises "to make every man a king" through wholesale (and wholly fantastic) redistribution of the national patrimony. In the same month, California physician Dr. Francis Townsend established Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., to promote his fetching nostrum of paying two hundred dollars monthly to all Americans over
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David M. Kennedy (Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States Book 9))