A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Miguel de Cervantes
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. ✨ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha, p.71
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
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 Saavedra (1993). Don Quixote, p … ▶
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are. ✨ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1976). The Portable Cervantes, p.121, Penguin
The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

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