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QUOTATION:The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
ATTRIBUTION:Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616), Spanish writer. the Canon, in Don Quixote, pt. 1, bk. 4, ch. 21 (1605), trans. by P. Motteux.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Cervantes Collection.
 
 
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