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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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He who's never loved cannot be good.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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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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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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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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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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