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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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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 requires a long time to know anyone.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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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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