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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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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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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.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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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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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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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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