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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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Alcala de Henares
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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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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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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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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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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Let the worst come to the worst.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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In hell there is no retention.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
Miguel de Cervantes
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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