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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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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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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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