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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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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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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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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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