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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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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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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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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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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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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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