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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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It takes all sorts (to make a world
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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