Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Every production must resemble its author.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.