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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
Accountant
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Lyricist
Novelist
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Poet
Soldier
Tax Collector
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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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Necessity
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Things
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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It requires a long time to know anyone.
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