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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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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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