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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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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Until death it is all life.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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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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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Many littles make a much.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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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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