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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 wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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