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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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 y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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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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Many littles make a much.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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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He who reforms, God assists.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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