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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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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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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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