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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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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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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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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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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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Until death it is all life.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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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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Many littles make a much.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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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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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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