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  1. A quotation from Diderot

    And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails,
    For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
     
    [Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
    Au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois.]

    Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher
    Poem (1772), “Les Éleuthéromanes”

    Much more about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/diderot-denis/6524/

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