Cervantes

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“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)