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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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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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