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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?.

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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