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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 shall be as secret as the grave.
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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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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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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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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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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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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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