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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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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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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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In hell there is no retention.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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