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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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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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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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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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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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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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