Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven gave to man.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright whose 'Don Quixote' is widely considered the first modern novel and one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. His tale of a delusional knight errant and his pragmatic squire created the template for all subsequent novelistic fiction.
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