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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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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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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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