He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and a smelly fish.
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This has long been attributed to Rizal as part of a poem, titled Sa Aking Mga Kabata (To My Fellow Youth), he wrote at the age of 8, as quoted in " Community Celebrates Rizal Day" in Asian Journal USA (31 December 2007), but this has become disputed as highly unlikely in "Did young Rizal really write poem for children?" by Ambeth R. Ocampo, in Philippine Daily Inquirer (22 August 22 2011)