“The Philippines should be grateful to you if you would write a complete history of our country from an impartial point of view.. But don't expect thanks and laurels--crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people. But perhaps your children may gather the fruit of what the father planted.”

— José Rizal

Letter to Blumentritt (13 April 1887)

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Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861–1896

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