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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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Get out of harms way.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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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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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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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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Let every man mind his own business.
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