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It is good to live and learn.
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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Give the devil his due.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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