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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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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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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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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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