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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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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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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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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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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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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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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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