The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
Mark TwainThe Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
Mark TwainWe are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
Mark Twain