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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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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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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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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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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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