“Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”

Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aún peor muchas veces.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 4.

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Cada uno es como Dios lo hizo, y aún peor muchas veces.

Variant: Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aún peor muchas veces.

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