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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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