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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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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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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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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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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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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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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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