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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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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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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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