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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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