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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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