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# Leon Ma. Guerrero

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León María Guerrero y Leogardo was a Filipino writer, revolutionary leader, politician, the first licensed pharmacist in the Philippines, and one of the most eminent botanists in the country during the late Spanish colonial period. He is considered to be the "Father of Philippine Pharmacy" due to hi

##  Quotes by Leon Ma. Guerrero

> [“It is safe to say that poetry cannot be translated.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-ma-guerrero/it-is-safe-to-say-that-poetry-cannot-be-translated/)

[Leon Ma. Guerrero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-ma-guerrero/)

[Poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/)

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> [“For hero-worship often defeats its own ends; the boy who "cannot tell a lie," the boy who kept his finger in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-ma-guerrero/for-hero-worship-often-defeats-its-own-ends-the-boy-who-cannot-tell-a/)

[Leon Ma. Guerrero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-ma-guerrero/)

[Hero worship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hero-worship/)

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> [“But fidelity to language is often infidelity to thought.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-ma-guerrero/but-fidelity-to-language-is-often-infidelity-to-thought/)

[Leon Ma. Guerrero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-ma-guerrero/)

[Betrayal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/betrayal/)

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