Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as truth is concerned
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God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.
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If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.
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He has an oar in every man's boat and a finger in every pie
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He got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for
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There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France, and all the Nine Worthies as well.
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In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.
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All music jars when the soul is out of tune
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Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice