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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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