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Absence
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Absence -- that common cure of love.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Action(s)
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Actors, Acting
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Art
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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Bravery
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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Caution
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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Charity
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Communication
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
-Miguel de Cervantes, Preface to Don Quixote
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Company, Companions
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Conflict
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The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Cowardice/Weakness
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Faint heart never won fair lady.
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Creation
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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
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Danger
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Death
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.
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Discipline
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Doubt
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Effort
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Enemy, Enemies
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Epitaphs
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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Equality
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-Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.
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Books by and about Miguel de Cervantes