“For if he like a madman lived,
At least he like a wise one died.”

—  Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote's epitaph
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV

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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616

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