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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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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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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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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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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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