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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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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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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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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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