"Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time"
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Miguel de Cervantes quotes (page 15 of 22)
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"When we are asleep, we are all equal."
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"Other men's pains are easily borne."
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"Great people create great acts of kindness."
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"Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory."
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"Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on."
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"Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy."
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"Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself."
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"A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty."
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""From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary.""
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"Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone."
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"The little birds have God for their caterer."
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"The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home."
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"All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage."
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"Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises."
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"There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle."
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"There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little."
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"The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates."
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"It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued."
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"Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred."
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