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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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 Cortinas
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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