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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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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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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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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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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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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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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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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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