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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of 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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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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In hell there is no retention.
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