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The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.

— José de San Martín

La conciencia es el mejor y más imparcial juez que tiene el hombre de bien.

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Letter from Brussels (18 December 1827), quoted in La Rivista de Buenos Aires (1864) edited by Miguel Navarro Viola y Vicente G. Quesada, Vol. 4

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