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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.
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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'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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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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It requires a long time to know anyone.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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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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Until death it is all life.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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