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• All sorrows are less with bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking Classes, Home Cooking

  "The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, p. 530, 1902.

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• Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.

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  Kings, Heart, Humble

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1982). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  4th Of July, Men, Honor

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.562

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• Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kings, Snakes, Devil

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• Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Devil, Doe, Stiles

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Motivational, Truth, Honesty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.550, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

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  Men, Sorrow, Too Much

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote”, p.71

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• Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

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  Mother, Experience, Universal

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.229

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• Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

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  Arrows, Example, Target

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• My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

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  Heart, Endure, Please

  "The Little Gypsy". "The Little Gypsy" by Miguel de Cervantes, 1613.

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• There's no love lost between us.

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  Life, Lost Love, No Love Lost

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha”, p.266

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• Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

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  Lovers, Uneasy, Industrious

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.251

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• Behind the cross is the devil.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Devil, Crosses, Behinds

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• The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hilarious, Complaining, Classic

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.20, Collector's Library

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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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  Forever, Missing, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.464

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• It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

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  Food, Men, Cooking

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.154

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• He had a face like a blessing.

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  Blessing, Grace, Faces

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2010). “Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

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  Funny, Men, Dental Work

  Don Quixote I, Ch. 4 (1605)

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• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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  Creativity, Procrastination, Design

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

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  Excess, Bears, Ass

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.4

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• There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

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  Pain, Remembrance, Doe

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.74

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• Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

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  Doors, Fortune, Remedy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.83, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who's never loved cannot be good.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Be Good

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• You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hands, Devil, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

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• All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

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  Sorrow, Bread, Bearable

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.32

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