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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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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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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.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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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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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Until death it is all life.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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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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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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