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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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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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