Miguel de Cervantes Short Quotes

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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

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On the word of a gentleman, and a Christian.

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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

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

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Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

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

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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

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I ever loved to see everything upon the square.

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Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

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I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.

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My love and hers have always been purely Platonic.

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Experience itself, the mother of all the sciences.

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

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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

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By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

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Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

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Neither will I make myself anybody's laughingstock.

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I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.

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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

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

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

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The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.

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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

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Many a time we look for one thing, and light on another.

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

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

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