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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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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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