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Letter "M" » Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes
«Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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«Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.»
«'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.»
«Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.»
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«It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.»
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«Every one is the son of his own works.»
«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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«Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker»
«The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.»
«There's no sauce in the world like hunger»
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