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Diversity is essential: the world would be incomplete if everyone were alike.
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From Spanish de todo ha de haber en el mundo (literally, “There must be of all [types] in the world”), Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha, Capítulo VI, 1615 (Don Quixote, Volume 2, Chapter VI); translated 1620, Shelton, as “In the world there must surely be of all sorts.” and appeared in various forms thereafter.
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