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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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 y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Many littles make a much.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Give the devil his due.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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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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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Until death it is all life.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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