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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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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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Many littles make a much.
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