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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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