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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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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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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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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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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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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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Miracle me no miracles.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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