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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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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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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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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