Tuesday, December the 21st, 2004
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“There are many in Paraguay who cherish dreams of discovering Jesuit mines. Humanity loves to deceive itself, although there are plenty ready to deceive it; and if men can both forge for themselves fables and at the same time damage their neighbours in so doing, their pleasure is intense” — R B Cunninghame-Graham, A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account Of The Jesuits In Paraguay 1607 To 1767