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If the nations of Europe appear like large pachyderms of the intellectual kingdom, let us not represent in Peru the microbes of literature.

— Manuel González Prada Conference at the Lima Athenaeum (1886)

Si las naciones d'Europa figuran como los grandes paquidermos del reino intelectual, no representemos en el Perú a los microbios de la literatura.

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