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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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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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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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