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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Approximate author period: c. 1581 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- Miguel De Cervantes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1581 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1547–1616)
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- Book of Wise Sayings (1893) (1893 AD)
Saying 565 · printed source label: Cervantes · entry translator not specified
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