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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.
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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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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