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Pour encourager les autres

Index: El milagro secreto.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A quotation from chapter 23 of Voltaire's Candide (1759), referring to the execution of Admiral Byng for failing to relieve Minorca. The complete sentence reads: 'In this country (England) it is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'" (158).