Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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