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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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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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