Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quotes

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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

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Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and old people applaud it.

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The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, other wise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.

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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

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Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?

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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

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I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.

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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

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"You are a villain and a scoundrel," said Don Quixote, "and you are the one who is vacant and foolish; I have more upstairs than the whore who bore you ever did".

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He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.

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Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!...

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