Quotes
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Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
To give the devil his due.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
Time ripens all things.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
Rome was not built in a day.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Novel