"Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards."
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Miguel de Cervantes quotes (page 19 of 22)
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"He who's never loved cannot be good."
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"Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility."
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"In hell there is no retention."
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"Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?."
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"It requires a long time to know anyone."
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"It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand."
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"What a man has, so much he is sure of."
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"It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."
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"Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise."
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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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"The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings."
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"El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up."
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"Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease."
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"I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add."
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"I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied."
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"The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me."
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"A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish."
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"Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible."
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"Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well."
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