The greatest madness a man can commit in this life is to let himself die without being killed by anyone, or without being killed by his own hand, only by melancholy.
— Cervantes Early Modern

Don Quixote

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Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter XIV

Date / Period

1615

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/996/996-h/996-h.htm#link2H_4_0007

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