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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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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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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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Until death it is all life.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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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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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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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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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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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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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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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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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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