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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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