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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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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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