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Candide

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A philosophic romance by Voltaire, and written in ridicule of the famous maxim of Leibnitz, "All for the best in the best of all possible worlds"; it is a sweeping satire, and "religion, political government, national manners, human weakness, ambition, love, loyalty, all come in for a sneer."

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Candide'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/candide.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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