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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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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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That which costs little is less valued.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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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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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Many littles make a much.
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