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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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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Get out of harms way.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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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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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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