Cervantes never gave up

Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote, had a life of failures.

He was born in 1547. He was badly wounded at the battle of Lepanto. In 1575 pirates captured him, and he spent five years as a captive in Algiers, according to Britannica. In 1597 he went to jail in Seville over a tax-collecting money problem, as The Collector tells it.

Don Quixote, Part One, came out in 1605. He was 57. He finally got somewhere.

Never give up.