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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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Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Get out of harms way.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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