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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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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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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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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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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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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