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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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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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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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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Many littles make a much.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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