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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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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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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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