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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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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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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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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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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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