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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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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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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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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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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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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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