Miguel de Cervantes - Sancho Quotes

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"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand.

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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

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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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Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say...

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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.

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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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