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    <code>
    foo = "bar";
    baz = "foz";
    </code>    		Code block with the default syntax highlighting mode.
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    foo = "bar";
    baz = "foz";
    </code>    		Code block with syntax highlighting for PHP (brief) source code
    and normal line numbers.
    <code language="php-brief" start="23" fancy="7">
    foo = "bar";
    baz = "foz";
    </code>    		Code block with syntax highlighting for PHP (brief) source code,
    line numbers starting from 23
    and highlighted line numbers every 7th line.
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“All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.” — ILN 3/14/08 – G. K. Chesterton

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