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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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When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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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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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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