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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Miguel de Cervantes -
He who reforms, God assists.
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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.
Miguel de Cervantes -
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
Miguel de Cervantes -
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
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There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Every man is the son of his own works.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes -
A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!
Miguel de Cervantes -
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes -
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.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
Miguel de Cervantes
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
Miguel de Cervantes -
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
Miguel de Cervantes