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Nicolas Sarkozy: Victory speech excerpts http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6631125.stm 6 May 2007
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
— John Dryden, book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 239–240.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
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