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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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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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Many littles make a much.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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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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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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