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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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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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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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Many littles make a much.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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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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