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Fernando Prieto

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“Once when I asked a chieftain in a certain province if he was a Christian, he said "I am not yet quite one, but I am making a beginning." I asked him what he knew of being Christian, and he said: "I know how to swear to God, and play cards a bit, and I am beginning to steal.”
― Fray Domingo de Santo Tomas

tags: 16th-century, peru

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“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

tags: carpe-diem, death, enjoy-life, life, misattributed, time

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“We fought for centuries to wrest our land from Moors, only to free ourselves by turning into the slaves of war. Deprived by victory of combat, we sailed far horizons in search of carnage and found the Indies. Now we must save them from our past.”
― John Caviglia, Arauco

tags: 16th-century, arauco, chile, conquistadors

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