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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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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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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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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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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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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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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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