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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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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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Let the worst come to the worst.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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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.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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