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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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Think before thou speakest.
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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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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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