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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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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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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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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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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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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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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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