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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.Miguel De Cervantes
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All that glisters is not gold.Miguel De Cervantes
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.Miguel De Cervantes
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.Miguel De Cervantes
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.Miguel De Cervantes
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.Miguel De Cervantes
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Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.Miguel De Cervantes
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He who sings frightens away his ills.Miguel De Cervantes
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All will come out in the washing.Miguel De Cervantes
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Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.Miguel De Cervantes
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.Miguel De Cervantes
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Faint heart never won fair lady.Miguel De Cervantes
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Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."Miguel De Cervantes
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Here is the devil-and-all to pay.Miguel De Cervantes
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.Miguel De Cervantes
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He had a face like a benediction.Miguel De Cervantes
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.Miguel De Cervantes
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.Miguel De Cervantes
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.Miguel De Cervantes
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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.Miguel De Cervantes
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Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.Miguel De Cervantes
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Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.Miguel De Cervantes
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.Miguel De Cervantes
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Honesty is the best policy.Miguel De Cervantes
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.Miguel De Cervantes
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.Miguel De Cervantes
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.Miguel De Cervantes
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There's no love lost between us.Miguel De Cervantes
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As ill-luck would have it.Miguel De Cervantes
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Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
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Take away the cause and the effect ceases.Miguel De Cervantes
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.Miguel De Cervantes
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Spick and span new.Miguel De Cervantes
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Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.Miguel De Cervantes
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Dine on little and sup on less.Miguel De Cervantes
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The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.Miguel De Cervantes
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.Miguel De Cervantes
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.Miguel De Cervantes
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There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.Miguel De Cervantes
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All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.Miguel De Cervantes
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One swallow alone does not make the summer.Miguel De Cervantes
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.Miguel De Cervantes
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Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.Miguel De Cervantes
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.Miguel De Cervantes
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The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.Miguel De Cervantes
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Mum is the word.Miguel De Cervantes
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.Miguel De Cervantes
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.Miguel De Cervantes
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.Miguel De Cervantes
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.Miguel De Cervantes
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.Miguel De Cervantes
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.Miguel De Cervantes
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.Miguel De Cervantes
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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.Miguel De Cervantes
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.Miguel De Cervantes
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.Miguel De Cervantes
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.Miguel De Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.Miguel De Cervantes
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.Miguel De Cervantes
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.Miguel De Cervantes
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.Miguel De Cervantes
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.Miguel De Cervantes
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Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.Miguel De Cervantes
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.Miguel De Cervantes
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.Miguel De Cervantes
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes
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To be prepared is half the victory.Miguel De Cervantes
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.Miguel De Cervantes