Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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Miguel de Cervantes

Writer

Love

“I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.”

Dog Friendship Pet

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Miguel de Cervantes

Writer

Creative

“One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.”

Art Painting Painter

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Funny

“Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.”

Followers Folly

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Funny

“Sing away sorrow, cast away care.”

Care Sin

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Angry

“Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.”

May Wealth Masters

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Wise

“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”

World Literature

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Angry

“Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.”

Doe Devil

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Confident

“She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.”

Want Trying Desire

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Melancholic

“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”

Joy Happiness Laughter

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Philosophical

“I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”

Believe Mother Literature

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Regretful

“And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.”

Book Air Nature

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Adventurous

“Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.”

Suffering Journey Maps

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