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• A closed mouth catches no flies.

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  Mouths

  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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• There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

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  Wisdom, Horse, Grandmother

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.758, Modern Library

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• Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

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  Kindness, Able, Great Person

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.335

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• Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

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  Business, Causes, Cause And Effect

  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.272

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• To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

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  Wise, Running, Anxiety

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.253

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• The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

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  Fighting, Men, Evil

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• History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

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  Past, Example, Action

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• Let us make hay while the sun shines.

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  Shining, Hay, Sun

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

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  Good Luck, Doors, Luck

  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.186

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• Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

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  Queens, Latin, Color

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• What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

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  Sex, Men, Mind

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• Patience and shuffle the cards.

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  Patience, Advice, Cards

  Don Quixote pt. 2, ch. 23 (1605)

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• There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

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  Remedy, All Things

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote”, p.148

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• They who lose today may win tomorrow.

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  Winning, May, Today

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1979). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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• There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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  Great Love, Littles, Embrace

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• Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

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  Food, Cooking, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1733). “The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface”, p.31

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• I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

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  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.258

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• Man have to have friends even in hell.

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  Men, Hell

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• When we are asleep, we are all equal.

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  Equal

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• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

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  Lying, Literature, Cowardice

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• A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

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  History, Posterity

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.555, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

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  Eye, Responsibility, Knights

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• Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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  Friendship, Art, Thee

  "Don Quixote".

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• Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

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  Taken, Wine, Doe

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• A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

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  Men, Pockets, Littles

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.56

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