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Give the devil his due.
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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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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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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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Many littles make a much.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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