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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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