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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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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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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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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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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Many littles make a much.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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