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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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