In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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"Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."

- Miguel de Cervantes

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"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."

- Miguel de Cervantes

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"Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

- Miguel de Cervantes

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"The man well prepared for the struggle has achieved half a triumph."

- Miguel de Cervantes

Success

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

- Miguel de Cervantes

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