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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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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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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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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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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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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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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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