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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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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All is not gold that glisters.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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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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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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