Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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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?
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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In hell there is no retention.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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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.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.