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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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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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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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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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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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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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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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