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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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 private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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