Extract from the Queen's Journal, Tuesday, 20th June 1837.
Context: Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
“Against destiny I fulfilled my duty.
Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.”
Poem "D. Duarte", verses 5-6
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Original: Cumpri contra o Destino o meu dever.
Inutilmente? Não, porque o cumpri.
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