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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra[b] (/sərˈvæntiːz/; Spanish: [miˈɣel de θerˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 23 April 1616 N.S.) 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. His masterpiece Don Quixote has been translated into more languages than any other book except the Bible.

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"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand. "

Divinity, Life, Lives, Quoth, Sancho, Wells

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Chaste, Jewels, Valuable, Virtuous, Women, World

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

Flower, Free, Giving, Keeps, Poesy, Witty

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.

Father, History, May, Thing

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Forgive, Forgive And Forget, Forgiveness, Forgiving, Injuries, Let

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Business, Cause, Cause And Effect, Causes, Ceases, Take

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Alcohol, Beer, Drink, Drinking, Occasion

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Advice, Life, Live, Long, Men, Thing

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

Man, Men, Sing, Take, Trouble, Wings

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

Battle, Fought, Men, Prepared, Progress

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

Handsome, Imagine, Let, Vanity, Women

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.

Control, Desire, Matter, Take, Would Be

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

Court, Father, Judging, Mind

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

God, Humorous, Made, Man, Men, Worse

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Courage, Cowardice, Lying, Middle, Recklessness, True

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

Asleep, Equal

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Discipline, Literature, Praise, Submit, Thing

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Hanged, House, Man, Men, Talking

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.

Become, Feared, Frogs, Kings, Law, Laws

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

Character, Comedy, Fool, Make, People

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