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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

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Every man is the son of his own works.

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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 29th, 1547

Died: April 23rd, 1616

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