“I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.”

—  José Martí

Of the United States, in a letter to Manuel Mercado (1895), as quoted in Research : The Student's Guide to Writing Research Papers (1998) by Richard Veit, p. 143

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