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  • It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.
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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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