... the person who possesses wealth is not made happy by ha… - Miguel de Cervantes

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... the person who possesses wealth is not made happy by having it but by spending it, and not spending it haphazardly but in knowing how to spend it well.

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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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En mütevazi kalbi bile usulca ele geçiren düşmanlar: riyakarlık ve kibir.

Y así, acometió a su presunción con las alabanzas de su hermosura, porque no hay cosa que más presto rinda y allane las encastilladas torres de la vanidad de las hermosas que la mesma vanidad, puesta en las lenguas de la adulación.

He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,

... the person who possesses wealth is not made happy by having it but by spending it, and not spending it haphazardly but in knowing how to spend it… - Miguel de Cervantes

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