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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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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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 brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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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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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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Get out of harms way.
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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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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