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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Miguel de Cervantes
Poetry, May, Historian
Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.30
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.