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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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