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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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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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All sorrows are less with bread.
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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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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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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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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