To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea. - Miguel de Cervantes

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To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea.

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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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de su vida: aquí amanecían, acullá comían; unas veces huían, sin saber de quién, y otras esperaban

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