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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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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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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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