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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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