Spanish - Novelist | September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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