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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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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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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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With life many things are remedied.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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