Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

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• Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Great
  • Poets
  • Modesty