"If you are ambitious of climbing up to……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne."
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Miguel de Cervantes
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314 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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