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  • The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
  • I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

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  • Miguel de Cervantes Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Absence, that common cure of love.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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