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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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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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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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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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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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