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• 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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  Honesty, Heart, Hands

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

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  Evil, Ifs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.88

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• There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

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  Book, Doe, Spanish And English

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• Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

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  Business, Learning, Ambition

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions

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• Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

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  Heart, Soul, Oaks

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.19

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• The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

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  Character, Simple, Men

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• Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

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  Men, Wings, Trouble

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• By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.

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  Christian, Soul, Mind

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.610, Alejandro's Libros

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• Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

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  Ornaments, Warfare, Arms

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.8

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• All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

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  Religious, Children, Knights

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• There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

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  Women, Jewels, World

  Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.100

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• It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

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  Eggs, Results, Frying

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.210

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• All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

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  Sleep, Men, Long

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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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• She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

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  Desire

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• Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

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  Smell, Garlic, Onions

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

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• For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

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  Wise, Madmen, Miscellaneous

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1848). “Don Quixote”, p.424

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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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  Funny, Death, Dying

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.414, Wordsworth Editions

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• A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

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  Witty, Children, Clever

  Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman (2009). “Don Quixote”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• A person dishonored is worst than dead.

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  Honor, Literature, Worst

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• Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

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  Luck, Ill, Knows

  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.190

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• He that gives quickly gives twice.

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  Giving

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• If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

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  Knights, Climbing, Hands

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1851). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.235

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• Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

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  Evil, Captivity, Slavery

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• Get out of harms way.

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  Advice, Way, Harm

  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.228

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