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Quotation from The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere) by José Rizal
“Recorded in the history of human sufferings is a cancer of so malignant a character that the least touch irritates it and awakens in it the sharpest pains.”
The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere), Author's Dedication, To My Fatherland, trans. Charles E. Derbyshire (1912)
Rizal explains the title and purpose of his book.
Citation: "Recorded in the history of human sufferings is a cancer of so malignant a character that the least touch irritates it and awakens in it the sharpest pains." — José Rizal, The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere), Author's Dedication, To My Fatherland, trans. Charles E. Derbyshire (1912). (id rizal-the-social-cancer-q1)
