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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
Miguel de Cervantes
Other men's pains are easily borne.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
Miguel de Cervantes
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who's never loved cannot be good.
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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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