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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Perseverance, Men

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part II, book IV, chapter 38., 1605-1615.

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• All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Enough, Persons, Handle

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.193

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• I'll turn over a new leaf.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Leafs, Turns

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.117

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• The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Eating, Stomach

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 6, 1605-1615.

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• Comparisons are odious.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Guidance, Standards, Comparison

  Miguel de Cervantes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mind, Wit And Humor, Wit

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• 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Running, Morning

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• "From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Justice, Politics, Economy

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1073, Modern Library

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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

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

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• For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Action, Born

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1990). “Don Quixote”

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• Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Too Much, Good Things, Too Much Of A Good Thing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• Think before thou speakest.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Thinking

  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.112

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• The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Poetry, May, Historian

  Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.30

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• Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Tears, Seduction

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Divorce, Funny Divorce, Worst

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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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  Love Is, Men, Two

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1050, Modern Library

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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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  Mirrors, Shining, May

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.212

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• Every dog has his day.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Dog, Fun

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1864). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha”, p.208

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• Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Littles, Riches, Liable

  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.73

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• Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

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  Food, Looks, Cheesecake

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1818). “Don Quixote de la Mancha,3”, p.149

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• Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blessed, Sleep, Men

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• The eyes those silent tongues of love.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Eye, Tongue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.92

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• Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Humorous, Men, Made

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Discipline, Literature, Praise

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

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• One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Advantage, Servant

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.232

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