Miguel de Cervantes

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Biography of Miguel de Cervantes
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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."	Ability, Change, Darkness
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."	Miscellaneous
"A closed mouth catches no flies."	Lies
"A good name is better than riches."	Evil
"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse."	Men
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."	Experience
"A word to the wise is enough."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"All is not gold that glitters."	Age, Money
"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."	Evil, Honesty, Men
"As ill-luck would have it."	Miscellaneous
"As they use to say, spick and span new."	Miscellaneous
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."	Miscellaneous
"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock."	Humor, Laughter, Monarchy
"Delay always breeds danger."	Anger
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."	Evil
"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."	Fear
"Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."	Change, Excellence, Men
"Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth."	Men
"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies."	Fear
"Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy."	Miscellaneous
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Laughter	Learning	Liberty
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