CANDIDE
By

VOLTAIRE
INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP LITTELL

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CANDIDE
By

VOLTAIRE
INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP LITTELL
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INTRODUCTION

verse, says that noses were made to carry spectacles, and so we have spectacles. A modern satirist would not try to paint with Voltaire's quick brush the doctrine that he wanted to expose. And he would choose a more complicated doctrine than Dr. Pangloss's optimism, would study it more closely, feel his destructive way about it with a more