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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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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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With life many things are remedied.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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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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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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