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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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