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The pleasure which strikes the soul must be derived from the beauty and congruity it sees or conceives in those things which the sight or imagination lay before it.
The pleasure which strikes the soul must be derived from the beauty and congruity it sees or conceives in those things which the sight or imagination lay before it.
Approximate author period: c. 1581 AD · renaissance
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- Miguel De Cervantes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1581 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1547–1616)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Cervantes. · page_448
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