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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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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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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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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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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.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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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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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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