Dec 13, 2018
The frankness is the first virtue of a deceased, because, in life, the look of the opinion, the contrast of interests, the fight of greed, force us to shut up the old rags, to mask the rips and patches, not to extend to the world the revelations that it makes to the conscience.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis)
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