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Letter "M" » Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes
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«Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.»
«The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.»
«It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Men
«You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
«There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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grandmother
«Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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this year
«There's no taking trout with dry breeches.»
«The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.»
«There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.»
«For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Learning
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dizziness, eminent, inconveniences, in the head
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