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Can you please translate?


I knew a version from Voltaire which goes like this: "give me one sentence from anyone and I'll have him hanged."

Of course if it comes from Richelieu it's more interesting since he actually could have people hanged, their castles destroyed, their properties confiscated, etc.


Not the exact wording, but something along the lines of "Give me two lines of text from an innocent man, and I can get him convicted."




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