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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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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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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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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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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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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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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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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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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