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Sep. 29: Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. Wikipedia
BornSeptember 29, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
DiedApril 22, 1616, Madrid, Spain

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
To be prepared is half the victory.

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."
--from DON QUIXOTE (1605–1615) by Miguel de Cervantes



Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, whose actual birthday is unknown, was baptized at the parish church of Santa María la Mayor in Alcala de Heraves, Spain on this day in 1547.
"Can we ever have too much of a good thing?"
--from DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA (1605–1615) 


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