The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
Mark TwainI have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Mark TwainI couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
Mark Twain