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Books found mischievous or libellous after printing are best dealt with by fire and the executioner
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- John Milton English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674)
Those which otherwise come forth, if they be found mischievous and libellous, the fire and the executioner will be the timeliest and the most effectual remedy that man's prevention can use.
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↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org
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