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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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With life many things are remedied.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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Give the devil his due.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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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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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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Too much sanity may be madness!
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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