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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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