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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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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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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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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