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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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Until death it is all life.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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