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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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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