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Miguel De Cervantes
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“There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aún peor muchas veces.”
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“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”
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“Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.”
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“The fair sex.”
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“de todos ha de haber en el mundo”
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“A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.”
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“Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.”
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“A stout man's heart breaks bad luck.”
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“As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.”
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“There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.”
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“Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?”
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“I'll turn over a new leaf.”
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“Let every man look before he leaps.”
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“La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.”
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Recorded in: Ch. 16 (tr. Henry Edward Watts, 1895).
“Marriage is a noose.”
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“There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.”
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“Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
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“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.”
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“There is no love lost, sir.”
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“He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.”
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“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
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“Comparisons are odious.”
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Recorded in: Lust's Dominion (c. 1600), Act iii. scene 4. The first edition attributed the authorship of this play to Marlowe, though this attribution has been recognized as spurious by critics and scholars for nearly two centuries.…
Also quoted by: Christopher Marlowe (misattributed), John Fortescue, Christopher Marlowe, Geoffrey Chaucer
“I say patience, and shuffle the cards.”
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“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
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“El que lee mucho y anda mucho vee mucho y sabe mucho.”
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“Tomorrow will be a new day.”
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“He is as like one, as one egg is like another.”
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“You can see farther into a millstone than he.”
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“Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.”
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“Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee.”
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“Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock.”
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“It is good to live and learn.”
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“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”
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“Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.”
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Recorded in: Ch. 33 (tr. J. M. Cohen, 1950).
“He is as mad as a March hare.”
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“I must follow him through thick and thin.”
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“There is no love lost between us.”
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“In the night all cats are gray.”
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“All is not gold that glisters.”
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Also quoted by: George Herbert
“I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.”
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“I was ever charitable and good to the poor, and scorn to take the bread out of another man's mouth. On the other side, by our Lady, they shall play me no foul play. I am an old cur at a crust, and can sleep dog-sleep when I list. I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. I know where the shoe wrings me. I will know who and who is together. Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.”
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Recorded in: Ch. 33 (tr. Pierre Antoine Motteux, 1701)
“Nadie nace enseñado, y de los hombres se hacen los obispos, que no de las piedras.”
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“A good name is better than riches.”
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“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.”
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“An honest man's word is as good as his bond.”
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“Heaven's help is better than early rising.”
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“I have other fish to fry.”
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“There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.”
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“But all in good time.”
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