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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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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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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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He who's never loved cannot be good.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
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