Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

  

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  • Sorrow
  • Seldom
  • Felicity