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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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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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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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He who's never loved cannot be good.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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He that gives quickly gives twice.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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