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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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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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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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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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