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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

— Miguel de Cervantes El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)

La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.

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Ch. 16 (tr. Henry Edward Watts, 1895).

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