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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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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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