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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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 the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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