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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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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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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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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There's no love lost between us.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
Miguel de Cervantes
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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