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At the end of three years my knowledge of Spanish and of literature in general was far beyond that of my friends. It was then my turn to laugh!

— Epifanio de los Santos

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It is not strange that Menendez Pelayo should discover the Filipino scholar because in brains and heart they were the same.

There is nothing more regenerating than music.

The Filipino is a true cosmopolitan. From him the world may expect something new and distinctive.

They overvalue courage forgetting that without knowledge it is only recklessness...Less bluff, more study.

When every Filipino home shall contain such a national work, stimulative of autonomous sentiments...then the Philippines will be spiritually and practically independent.

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