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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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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He had a face like a blessing.
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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 want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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Many littles make a much.
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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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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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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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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It is good to live and learn.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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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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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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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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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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