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You are taking the wrong sow by the ear. (Miguel de Cervantes)
You are come off now with a whole skin. View quote
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Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone? View quote
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It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune. View quote
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. View quote
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Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword. View quote
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning. View quote
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Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones. View quote
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Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity. View quote
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The pot calls the kettle black. View quote
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If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead. (Miguel de Cervantes)
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. View quote
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Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase? View quote
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. View quote
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Of good natural parts and of a liberal education. View quote
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Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies. View quote
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You can see farther into a millstone than he. View quote
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The more thou stir it, the worse it will be. View quote
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You may as well expect pears from an elm. View quote
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Rome was not built in a day. View quote
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The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment. (Miguel de Cervantes)
After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it. View quote
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. View quote
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She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry. View quote
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Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes - Image
Occupation: Spanish Novelist
Born: September 29, 1547
Died: April 22, 1616
Quotes count: 283
Wikipedia: Miguel de Cervantes

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