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“Es lo que le debe América a Napoleón. En aquel instante sonó una doble campanada de independencia: una, en España misma, para expulsar a Bonaparte, y otra, en América, para expulsar al régimen español. Los hispanos derrotarán a Napoleón, pero serán derrotados en América por los hombres de sus colonias: He aquí la epopeya de la libertad en sus dos fases: la faz peninsular, por su independencia, y la faz americana, por la suya propia.”

“And then I went to college, and I met people who, for whatever reason, decided to be my friends, and they taught me - everything, really. They made me, and make me, into someone better than I really am. "You won't understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are - not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving - and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad - or good - it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”