I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.