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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

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He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, "This is a cock."

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It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.

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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes
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Born: September 29, 1547
Died: April 23, 1616 (aged 68)
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