• 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.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet 1547-1616
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. conversation
2. applied
3. forever
4. renders
5. insipid
6. vulgar

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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. by : Miguel de Cervantes

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