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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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