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Miguel de Cervantes
(full name: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Spanish novelist and playwright
(1547-1616)



"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"
-- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)

"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."
-- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)

"The Knight of the Doleful Countenance."
(or: "The Knight of the Sad Countenance.")
(translation of original Spanish: "El Caballero de la Triste Figura")
-- Sancho Panza describing Don Quixote, in: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)

"He's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals."
-- Sancho Panza describing Don Quixote, in: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)

"There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say: the Haves and the Have-Nots."
-- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)

"Blessing on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that satisfies hunger, the drink that slakes thirst, the fire that warms cold."
-- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)










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