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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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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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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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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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