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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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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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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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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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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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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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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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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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It is good to live and learn.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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