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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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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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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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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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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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