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• True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

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  Lying, Cowardice, Valor

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

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  Feelings, Stones, Fool

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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• Little said is soon amended.

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  Littles, Said

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.257

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• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

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  Beauty, Mother, Children

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Vicente de los Rios, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by C. Jarvis”, p.199

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• In hell there is no retention.

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  Hell, Retention

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part I, Chapter 25), 1612.

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• 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

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  Death, Prayer, Rap

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

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  Men, Broken, Bones

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.196

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• Delay always heeds danger.

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  Delay, Danger, Heed

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Book IV, Chapter III, 1605-1615.

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• I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

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  Intelligent, Views, Laughing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.160, Collector's Library

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• It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

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  Writing, Should Have, Epic Poems

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• But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

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  Gathering, Wool, Ass

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

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  Desire, Would Be, Matter

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part I, Book IV, Ch. 23, 1605.

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• What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

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  Generosity, Credit, Cheaper

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• Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

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  Heart, Faint Of Heart, Fairs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha”, p.71

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• Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

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  Thinking, Poetry, Literature

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• It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

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  Past, History, Cost

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

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• Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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  Giants, Looks, Literature

  "Don Quixote".

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• It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

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  Heart, Brave, Too Much

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• I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.

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  Sex, Broken, Promise

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1833). “The history and adventures of the renowned don Quixote: from the Span., by T. Smollett. To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by T. Roscoe. Illustr. by G. Cruikshank”, p.155

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

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  Life, Divinity, Wells

  "Don-Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1615.

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• Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

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  Fear, Integrity, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.93

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• All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

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  Funny, Life, Epic

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• The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

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  Passion, Mind, Increase

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• Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.

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  Wisdom, Fall, Men

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• The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

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  Vanity, Preserves

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