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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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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He that gives quickly gives twice.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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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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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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