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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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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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