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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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