“"If you want to do something great in the world, do not get married, remain single… One may get married after he had accomplished something great in this world." Yet this great man who advised against marriage, was the happiest of men at the fireside of his family.”

— Epifanio de los Santos

Views on marriage in The Manila Tribune. April 19, 1928.
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Filipino politician 1871–1928

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