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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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Honesty's the best policy.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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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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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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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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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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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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Delay always breeds danger.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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