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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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