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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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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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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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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 private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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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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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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