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It must be believed that Dona Placida still couldn't talk when she was born, but if she could have, she might have said to the authors of her days, "Here I am. Why did you call me?' And the sacristan and the sacristaness would naturally have answered her, 'We called you to burn your fingers on pots, your eyes in sewing, to eat poorly or not at all, to go from one place to another in drudgery, getting ill and recovering only to get ill and recover once again, sad now, then desperate, resigned tom
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Her husband didn't confess the reason for his refusal to me. He told me, too, that it was because of personal business and the serious, convinced face with which I listened to him did honor to human hypocrisy.’’
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis
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