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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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 wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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It requires a long time to know anyone.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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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He who's never loved cannot be good.
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