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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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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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