"They must needs go whom the Devil drives."
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Miguel de Cervantes quotes (page 22 of 22)
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"History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth."
"Tomorrow will be a new day."
"I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance."
"Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind."
"When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made."
"Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun."
"Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough."
"Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine."
"Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward."
"Let the worst come to the worst."
"For hope is always born at the same time as love."
"Heaven's help is better than early rising."
"She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being."
"Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker"
"Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth."
"Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow."