Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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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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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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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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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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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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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.