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• The journey is better than the inn".

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  Journey, Inns

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• Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

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  Art, Cat, Coward

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1706). “The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha,1”, p.150

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• The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

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  Wise, Hands, Doe

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• The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

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  Character, People, Fool

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.437, Alejandro's Libros

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• Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

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  Able, Riches, Flaws

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1858). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.358

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• He preaches well that lives well

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  Preacher, Preaching, Wells

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.188

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• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

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  Communication, Dark, Light

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

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  Funny, Character, Play

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1840). “The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes”, p.27

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• Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

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  Sorrow, Care, Sin

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Thomas Roscoe (1833). “The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote”, p.184

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• The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

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  Writing, Soul, Language

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• The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

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  Judging, Pudding, Pieces

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• A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

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  Latin, Silly, Language

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

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• The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

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  Remembrance, Former, Prove

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

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  Two, World, Littles

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1706). “The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha,2”, p.116

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• Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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  God, Men, Atheism

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

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• Every production must resemble its author.

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  Creativity, Productions

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

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  Christian, Vengeance, Injury

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.386

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• Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

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  Funny, Humor, Painter

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• Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

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  Life, Success, God

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• She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

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  Desire, Trying, Want

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• Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

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  Death, Wells, Remedy

  Don Quixote II, Ch. 10 (1605)

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• When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

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  Art, Rome, Political

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.656, Wordsworth Editions

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• It takes all sorts (to make a world

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  World, Wind In The Willows, Miscellaneous

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lesley Lipson (1998). “Exemplary Stories”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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  Irritation, Envy, Vices

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.119, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

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  Horse, Ass, Horse Riding

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.415

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