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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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Give the devil his due.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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Get out of harms way.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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