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Miguel De Cervantes
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“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.”
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“...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas.”
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“-->* I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.”
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“-->* They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”
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“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.”
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“As ill-luck would have it.”
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“Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.”
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“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.”
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“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
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“Put you in this pickle.”
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“He had a face like a benediction.”
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“Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”
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“Take care, Your Worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.”
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Recorded in: Ch. 8 (tr. J. M. Cohen, 1950).
“The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.”
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“Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.”
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“The eyes those silent tongues of Love.”
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“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”
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“Without a wink of sleep.”
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“The soldier who executes his captain's commands is no less valuable than the captain who gave the order.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 5 (tr. Tobias Smollett, 1755).
“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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“Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.”
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“Fair and softly goes far.”
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“No limits but the sky.”
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“To give the devil his due.”
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“Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 3 (tr. J. M. Cohen, 1950).
“Plain as the nose on a man's face.”
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“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”
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“You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.”
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“Bell, book, and candle.”
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“You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.”
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“Let the worst come to the worst.”
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“You are come off now with a whole skin.”
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“Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.”
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“That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
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“Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.”
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“Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?”
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“I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.”
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“The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.”
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“Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.”
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“I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet.”
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“Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I'll stick.”
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“Sure as a gun.”
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“Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.”
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“Sing away sorrow, cast away care.”
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“Thank you for nothing.”
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“After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.”
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“Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.”
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“Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity.”
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“Let every man mind his own business.”
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