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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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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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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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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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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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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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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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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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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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