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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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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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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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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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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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