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Honesty's the best policy.
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 two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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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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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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With life many things are remedied.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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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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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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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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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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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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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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