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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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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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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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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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