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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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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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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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