Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs … - Miguel de Cervantes

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In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

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The wicked are always ungrateful.

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