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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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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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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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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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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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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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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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