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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Accountant
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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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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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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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