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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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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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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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