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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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 have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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