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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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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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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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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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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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It takes all sorts (to make a world
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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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