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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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 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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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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He that gives quickly gives twice.
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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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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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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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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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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Until death it is all life.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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