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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
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Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!
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Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
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