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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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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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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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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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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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