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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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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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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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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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