Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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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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He had a face like a blessing.
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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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Nor has his death the world deceived than his wondrous life surprised; if he like a madman lived least he like a wise one died.
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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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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.