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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
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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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Think before thou speakest.
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there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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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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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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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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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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