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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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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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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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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