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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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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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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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