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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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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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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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