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Don Quixote (1605)
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My love and hers have always been purely Platonic.
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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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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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Liberty … is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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He … got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.
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He's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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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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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
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Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.
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The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic — adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.
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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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
September 29, 1547
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 68)
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