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“In the best of possible worlds the château of monseigneur the baron was the most beautiful of châteaux, and madame the best of possible baronesses.”
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- Source:
- Candide. Chap. i.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fc4c0a39b2fecc8b6426ec7515792ab9f064c4fd6bb25d42ba89f8adcac6e871
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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