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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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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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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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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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