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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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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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