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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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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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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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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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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