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" "Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the beauty remaining to her after so many hardships; for, as everyone knows, the beauty of some women has its times and its seasons, and is increased or diminished by chance causes; and naturally the emotions of the mind will heighten or impair it, though indeed more frequently they totally destroy it.
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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So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight, it seems he intentionally passes over them in silence, since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them deviate from the path of the truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, repository of great deeds, witness to the past, example and adviser to the present, and forewarning to the future.
Poco desviados de allí hicieron alto estos tres carros, y cesó el enfadoso ruido de sus ruedas, y luego se oyó otro, no ruidoXVIII, sino un son de una suave y concertada música formado, con que Sancho se alegró, y lo tuvo a buena señal, y, así, dijo a la duquesa, de quien un punto ni un paso se apartaba: — Señora, donde hay música no puede haber cosa mala44. — Tampoco donde hay luces y claridad — respondió la duquesa.
A lo que replicó Sancho: — Luz da el fuego, y claridad las hogueras, como lo vemos en las que nos cercan y bien podría ser que nos abrasasen; pero la música siempre es indicio de regocijos y de fiestas.
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