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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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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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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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