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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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
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All is not gold that glisters.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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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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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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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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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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