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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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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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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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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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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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Think before thou speakest.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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