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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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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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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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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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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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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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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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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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