Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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With life many things are remedied.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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I have other fish to fry.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.