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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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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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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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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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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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Give the devil his due.
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