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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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With life many things are remedied.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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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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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Miguel de Cervantes
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
Miguel de Cervantes
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Miguel de Cervantes
Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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