“I have the grace of providence to be poor.”

— António de Oliveira Salazar

Quoted in Salazar and his time - Page 98; of César de Oliveira - The Official Publisher, 1991 ISBN 9726920876, 9789726920878 - 237 pages

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Prime Minister of Portugal 1889–1970

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