“This I’d also heard for as long as I could remember, and it was one of our oldest Mexican dichos, sayings, and what it said was that manners didn’t take away bravery, and that bravery didn’t diminish manners.”
Lo cortés no quita lo valiante, y lo valiante no quita lo cortés.”
Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)
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