Quote #58
The life Rizal lived is a more abiding gift than the things he said and wrote. His life will forever be of inestimable importance.
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- His coming to the world is like the appearance of a rare comet, whose brilliance appears only every other century.
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- A gem of a man. (Un perla de hombre.)
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- Mi ultimo adios (the original Spanish). First printing 1897, Hong Kong. Etext available at Project Gutenberg