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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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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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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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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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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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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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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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