Spanish - Novelist | September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616
Every man is the son of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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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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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
BetterOwnHerSecureThanReserve
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
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