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El Filibusterismo

José Rizal

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1891
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 350

The steamer Tabo labours up the Pasig, and the passenger the friars and officials defer to is a jeweller in blue-tinted spectacles, fabulously rich, with the Captain-General's ear. None of them knows they are being polite to a dead man.

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?
El Filibusterismo, José Rizal

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