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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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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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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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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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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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