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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes

«But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.»
«Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.»
«Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.»
«A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.»
«Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.»
«Fear has many eyes.»
«It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged»
«A man dishonored is worse than dead»
«He has an oar in every man's boat and a finger in every pie»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Keywords: oar, PIE
«A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.»