…as it seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as no… - Miguel de Cervantes

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…as it seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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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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…as it seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. - Miguel de Cervantes

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