"Lo que poco cuesta, poco dura. Los libros que admiran i deleitan a la Humanidad, fueron pensados i escritos en largas horas de soledad i recojimiento, costaron a sus autores el hierro de la sangre i el fósforo del cerebro."

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That which costs little, lasts little. The books that Humanity admires and delights, they were thought and written in long hours of solitude and seclusion, costing their authors the iron of their blood and the phosphorus of their brain.