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Julio, in those libraries of death
study the bodies of those bones—an assured evil;
and learn from those characters
that they form the abecedary of death!

— Hernando Domínguez Camargo San Ignacio de Loyola (1666)

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Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 335

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En tantas de la muerte liberias,
Los cuerpos de esos huesos mal seguro
Estudia Julio, y en su letra advierte,
que son abecedarios de la muerte!

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