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• Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn. -- Miguel de Cervante
• I love you for your beauty; love me although I am ugly. -- Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote
• You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?
  here is no answer to be made. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap....
• You may as well expect pears from an elm. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.
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• She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• Thank you for nothing. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
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• Mum's the word. -- Miguel de Cervante