Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the … - Miguel de Cervantes

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I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

Miguel de Cervantes

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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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.

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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

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The wicked are always ungrateful.

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