Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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He who reforms, God assists.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
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For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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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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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.