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  • For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
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  • In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.
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