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Inheritance
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Kindness
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Fair and softly goes far.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Language
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Law
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Laziness
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Leadership
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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Learning
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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.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Life
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Literary
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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
-Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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Love
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Medicine
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
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Miracles
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Miracle me no miracles.
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Money
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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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Music
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Parenting
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Patience
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Persistence
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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.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Plagiarism
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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.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Planning
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To be prepared is half the victory.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Potential
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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Procrastination
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Proverbial Wisdom
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Books by and about Miguel de Cervantes