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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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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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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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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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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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