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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.
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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Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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