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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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 good name is better than bags of gold.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Get out of harms way.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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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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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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