“He soon retires (i.e., into a cloister) who finds religion late.”

— Mateo Alemán , book Guzmán de Alfarache

Source: Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604), Pt. II, Lib. I, Ch. III.

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novelist, writer 1547–1614

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