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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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