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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could 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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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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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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