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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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With life many things are remedied.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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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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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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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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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
Miguel de Cervantes
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And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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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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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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