"Fortuna estrana que al ingenio aplico La vida pobre y el sepulcro rico."
— Luís de Camões

January 1, 1970

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Strange fortune that to so much wit and learning gave a life of poverty and a rich sepulcher. — Lope de Vega, Laurel de Apolo (1630); translation from The Spell of China (1917) by Archie Bell, p. 81.