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Sat, Mar 14  France
Daniel Defoe, in ‘‘Robinson Crusoe’’: ‘‘That the surprise may not drive the Animal Spirits from the Heart.’’ Jane Austen used it to mean ‘‘ebullience’’ in ‘‘Pride and Prejudice’’: ‘‘She had high animal spirits.’’ Benjamin Disraeli, a novelist in 1844, ...

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