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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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There's no love lost between us.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, SeƱor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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