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It requires a long time to know anyone.
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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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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Give the devil his due.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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Many littles make a much.
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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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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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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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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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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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Think before thou speakest.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de Cervantes
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Miguel de Cervantes
Until death it is all life.
Miguel de Cervantes
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes
