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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
Accountant
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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
Arms
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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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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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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Until death it is all life.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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Many littles make a much.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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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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Delay always breeds danger.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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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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With life many things are remedied.
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