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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Spanish adventurer, author, & poet [more author details]

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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.: Miguel De Cervantes
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.: Miguel De Cervantes
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.: Miguel de Cervantes
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.: Miguel de Cervantes
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.: Miguel de Cervantes
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.: Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.: Miguel de Cervantes
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.: Miguel de Cervantes
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.: Miguel de Cervantes
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.: Miguel de Cervantes
The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
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Facts are the enemy of truth.: Miguel de Cervantes, Man of La Mancha

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