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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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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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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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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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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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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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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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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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