Quevedo y Villegas

/ (kɛˈveɪðəʊiː vɪlˈjeɪɡæs) /

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Francisco Gómez de. 1580–1645, Spanish poet and writer, noted for his satires and the picaresque novel La historia de la vida del Buscón (1626)

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Very bass-y house, if I was in my element and playing what I like to play.
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With the freedom of doing that, we were able to do a non-human, flip-y thing.
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I was like, “In what world do I look like I would play the WASP-y wife?”
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If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
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Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.
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D'o l'on peut aussy veoir, quelle esperance il y a de planter une belle chrestient par tels evangelistes.
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Ajoutez cecy, s'il vous plaist, la grande difficult qu'il y a de tirer d'eux les mots mesmes qu'ils ont.
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Il n'y eut celuy de nous qui ne jugeast tel metheore prodigieux.
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