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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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 would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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