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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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