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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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