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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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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Miracle me no miracles.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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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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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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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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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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He who reforms, God assists.
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