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• He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

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  Get Well, Recovery, Past

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.234

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• One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

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  Men, House

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.217, Collector's Library

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• And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

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  Glowing, Brain, Sun

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• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

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  Men, Death Of A Friend, Sorrow

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.377

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• When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

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  Pain, Ache, Members

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.376, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

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  Home, Advice, Looks

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• Miracle me no miracles.

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  Miracle

  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.184

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• Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

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  Knights, Coward

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.76, 谷月社

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• Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

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  Blessed, Hands, Gentleman

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Race, Play, Theatre

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1954). “Don Quixote”, London ; Montreal : Penguin Books

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• I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

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  Eye, Two, Mad

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• Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

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  Leadership, Sheep, Society

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1749). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell”, p.55

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• Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

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  Sweet, House, God Love

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1907). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha”

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• El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

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  Bread, Break, Company

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• He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

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  Father, Judging, Mind

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• For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

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  Mother, Past, Hatred

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• There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

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  Death, Teeth, Spite

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.318

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• I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

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  Mother, Believe, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

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  Crazy, Lying, Fate

  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1976). “The Portable Cervantes”, p.427, Penguin

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• Bien predica quien bien vive.
  He preaches well who lives well.

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  Life, Preacher, Wells

  "Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote".

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• The proof of the pudding is the eating.

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  Pudding, Eating, Proof

  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.135

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• God helps everyone with what is his own.

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  Helping, God Help

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part II, 26, 1605-1615.

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• Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

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  Spring, Evil, Deeds

  "Coloquio de los Perros". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1613.

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• One swallow alone does not make a summer.

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  Summer, Doe

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• Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Pieces, Sides, Language

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha,5”, p.221

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