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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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834 |
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AUTHOR:
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Francisco Pizarro (c. 1476–1541) |
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QUOTATION:
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Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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FRANCISCO PIZARRO.—This English translation of a 1527 manuscript is in William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru, vol. 1, p. 263 (1848). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Guilt |
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