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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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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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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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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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