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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Think before thou speakest.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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Many littles make a much.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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