The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESWit and humor belong to genius alone.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Think before thou speakest.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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It is good to live and learn.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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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.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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