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Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country it is considered a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
  Of England. Reference to the execution of Admiral Byng following his failure to engage the French at Menorca,1757. Candide, ch.23.

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