Spanish - Novelist | September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
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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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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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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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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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