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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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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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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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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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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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