Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 325
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There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 325
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love: there is a kind of it which pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 100
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 164
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Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 295
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No fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 417
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