“Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.”

—  José Rizal, book Noli Me Tángere

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Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861–1896

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