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“In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Candide. Chap. xxiii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5a387cd84c8406bf710d18f84fef67a05c0cec63dc328559fa7455a8376abd60
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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