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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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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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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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