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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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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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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Many littles make a much.
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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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Miracle me no miracles.
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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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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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