My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back. - Miguel de Cervantes

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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

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About Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is most famous for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.

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for he took away a good deal of its original value, which is what all who attempt to translate books of poetry into another language will do as well: no matter the care they use and the skill they show, they will never achieve the quality the verses had in their first birth.
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