El Alguazil Alguacilado
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For every judge we sow, we gather six attorneys, two draftsmen, four notaries, five barristers, and five thousand negotiators, and the crop comes every day.
— Francisco de Quevedo
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "For every judge we sow, we gather six attorneys, two draftsmen, four notaries, five barristers, and five thousand negotiators, and the crop comes every day." in the context of "El Alguazil Alguacilado" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Francisco de Quevedo" (Quotes: Quotes reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Martin Hume, Dictionary of quotations (Spanish) (New York: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907), Sueños y discursos (1627))
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About Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, (14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.
About Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, (14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.
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