Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (1605)

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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

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He's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals.

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It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.

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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favored race.

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I ever loved to see everything upon the square.

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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

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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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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

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Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

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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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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

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There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

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

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My love and hers have always been purely Platonic.

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The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease and in the sick man's willingness to take the medicines which the physician prescribes...

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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

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Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

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Liberty … is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

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I was ever charitable and good to the poor, and scorn to take the bread out of another man's mouth. On the other side, by our Lady, they shall play me no foul play. I am an old cur at a crust, and can sleep dog-sleep when I list. I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. I know where the shoe wrings me. I will know who and who is together. Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

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There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.

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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

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