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At half past ten, Don Otavio issues from the house, splendid like the moon, all in white silk, his silvery hair brushed upwards, a Charvet tie over his holy shirt, bearing nothing.

— Sybille Bedford A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico (1960)

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The Indians were delighted to accept a new god, but reluctant to relinquish many of the old ones.

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The descendants of the Aztecs sleeping on the pavements of Mexico City are paupers. We speak of poverty as being abject, extreme, dire, genteel; crippling, unmitigated, relative. It can be all of these, but it is always the last.

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