Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry.

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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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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

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Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

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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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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

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He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.

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I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

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Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.

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