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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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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
Miguel de Cervantes
I'll turn over a new leaf.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
Miguel de Cervantes
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let the worst come to the worst.
Miguel de Cervantes
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Miguel de Cervantes
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
Miguel de Cervantes
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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