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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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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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Many littles make a much.
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