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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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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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