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• It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

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  Compassion, Judging, Sides

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.321

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• For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

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  Friends, Men, Law

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.189

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• All is not gold that glisters.

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  Gold

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.342

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

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  Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs

  "Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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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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  Love, Wise, Faithful

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.165

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• Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.

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  Kings, Law, Frogs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.357

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

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  Men, Spoons, Mouths

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.418

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• When you are at Rome, do as you see.

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  Rome

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs, and others which occur in Don Quixote; with a aliteral English translation, notes, and an introduction by Ulick Ralph Burke”, p.37

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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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  Wall, Distance, Flower

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1842). “Don Quixote”, p.165

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• Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

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  Prompts, Urgent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.229

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• Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

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  Evil, Ifs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.88

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• Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

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  Traitor, Treason, Please

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• Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

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  Heart, Soul, Oaks

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.19

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• All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

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  Religious, Children, Knights

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• Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

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  Honesty, Heart, Hands

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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  Wish, Laziness, Good Wishes

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• A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.

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  Years, World, Months

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• When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

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  Equality, World, Earth

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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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  Mother, Home, Government

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• The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

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  Character, Simple, Men

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• There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

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  Book, Doe, Spanish And English

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• Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

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  Men, Wings, Trouble

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• Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

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  Ornaments, Warfare, Arms

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.8

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• A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.

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  Teeth, Diamond

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.138, Alejandro's Libros

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• All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

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  Sleep, Men, Long

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