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Think before thou speakest.
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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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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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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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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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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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