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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes

«Delay always heeds danger.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Delay | Keywords: delay, heeds
«And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes, can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure»
«Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.»
«`If I had a water thirst,' replied Sancho, `there are wells on the road where I could have quenched it.'»
«He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.»
«Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.»
«'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.»
«The sage left nothing in his ink-horn.»
«Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.»
«Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's presence.»