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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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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Alcala de Henares
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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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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