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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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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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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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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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