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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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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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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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Give the devil his due.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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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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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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