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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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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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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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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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It is good to live and learn.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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