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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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