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Portugal
Books that are set in Portugal.
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The most industrious way to ensure having a really good time in Portugal has always been to have a shot at translating some Portuguese literature, preferably Camoens, before your visit. This pleases the Portuguese, an amiable and generous people, irrespective of the merits of the translation, which are usually not remarkable.
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― They Went To Portugal
― They Went To Portugal
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Read they will not. Indeed, if they would, they have scarcely a book in their own language fit to be read. I would our novel mongers … were transported here, and ordered to manufacture trash for the Portuguese. Anything that would teach them to read!’ The Academy, he complained bitterly, had not even been able to get beyond A in the huge dictionary it had begun six years ago.
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― They Went To Portugal
― They Went To Portugal
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