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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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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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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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