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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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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'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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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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