Miguel de Cervantes

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"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock."	Humor, Laughter, Monarchy
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."	Adversity, Difficulty, Knowledge
"There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters."	Books, Men
"Delay always breeds danger."	Anger
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."	Evil
"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water."	Honesty, Lies, Truth
"Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth."	Men
"As ill-luck would have it."	Miscellaneous
"They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains."	Miscellaneous
"The more thou stir it, the worse it will be."	Miscellaneous
"Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones."	Men
"The pot calls the kettle black."	Miscellaneous
"There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots."	Lies
"There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other."	Death, Time
"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."	Fear
"There is no love lost between us."	Love
"That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."	Love, Men, Nature
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."	Courage, Men
"The proof of the pudding is [in] the eating."	Miscellaneous
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."	Miscellaneous
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Anger	Art	Books
Change	Courage	Darkness
Death	Difficulty	Evil
Excellence	Experience	Fear
Freedom	Friends	Government
Happiness	History	Honesty
Humor	Joy	Knowledge
Laughter	Learning	Liberty
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Mistakes	Monarchy
Money	Nature	Reading
Sanity	Sin	Sorrow
Time	Truth	War
Wisdom	Women