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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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