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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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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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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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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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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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In hell there is no retention.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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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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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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