Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

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Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

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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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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

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Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

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The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.

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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

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It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.

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Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?

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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder, for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope. 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket. And though I am but a clown, or a bumpkin, as you may say, yet I would have you to know I know what is what, and have always taken care of the main chance...

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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

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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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"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee."

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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

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Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death.

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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

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Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

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