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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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