than wander through the world seeking impossible adventures… - Miguel de Cervantes

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than wander through the world seeking impossible adventures, considering that many who go out looking for wool come back shorn themselves.

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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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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Many people go looking for wool and come back shorn.

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than wander through the world seeking impossible adventures, considering that many who go out looking for wool come back shorn themselves. - Miguel de Cervantes

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