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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#better #bolts #her #maiden #own

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#crutches #hours #love #our #wings

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

#giants #look #pray #sir #things

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#bent #bow #cannot #frailty #human

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#any #believe #exercise #fact #how

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#benefit #brag #draw #expressing #him

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#inconstancy #nothing #subject #war

Thou hast seen nothing yet. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#nothing #seen #thou #yet

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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