183 ordspråk av Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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The Knight of the Sad Countenance.
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The most artful part in a play,may is the fool's
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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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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it
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The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it
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The sage left nothing in his ink-horn.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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