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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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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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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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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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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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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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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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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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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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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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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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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