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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
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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There's no love lost between us.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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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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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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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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