“You die alone in your house, and your cat will eat you.”
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“On a day when you can dine on dry bread in your own house, do not seek to eat tender peacocks in the house of another.”
— Mateo Alemán, book Guzmán de Alfarache
Pt. I, Lib. III, Ch. X.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
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