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Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

All that glisters is not gold.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

All will come out in the washing.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Said the pot to die kettle Get away blackface.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

He had a face like a benediction.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.