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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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He who reforms, God assists.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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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 tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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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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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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Many littles make a much.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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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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