"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."
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"There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha"
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"When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all."
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"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."
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"A stout heart breaks bad luck."
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"'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens."
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"Give the devil his due."
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"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."
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"Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you."
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"Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
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"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
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"I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin."
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"Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art."
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"Let us make hay while the sun shines."
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"Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last."
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"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world"
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"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."
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"The proof of the pudding is the eating."
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"The proof is in the pudding."
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"Wit and humor belong to genius alone."
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