Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. - Miguel de Cervantes

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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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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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Pero aquí empieza otra historia, la de la lenta renovación de un hombre, la de su regeneración progresiva, su paso gradual de un mundo a otro y su conocimiento escalonado de una realidad totalmente ignorada. En todo esto habría materia para una nueva narración, pero la nuestra ha terminado.
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