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• Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Change, Self, Names

  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.225

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• Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, War, Policy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.245

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• One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Painting, Painter

  "The Portable Cervantes".

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• Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Deeds, Prompts, Urgent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thank you for nothing.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Gratitude, Love You

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1774*). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha,1: Being an Accurate, Complete, and Most Entertaining Narrative of the Wonderful Atchievements of that Incomparable Hero and Knight-errant ...”, p.101

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• Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Journey, Suffering, Maps

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.56

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• Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fire, Frying Pans, Thai

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fishing, Effort, Trout

  Miguel de Cervantes (2016). “Don Quijote de La Mancha / Don Quixote of La Mancha: edición bilingüe / bilingual edition - español / english”, p.2974, BOLCHIRO

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• Tomorrow will be a new day.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Future, New Day, Tomorrow

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.728, Wordsworth Editions

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• I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fruitcake, Speak, Speak The Truth

  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.115

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• They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Devil, Needs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sadness, Comfort, Literature

  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.242

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• We must not stand upon trifles.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Trifles

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1858). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.155

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• There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  War, Literature, Conflict

  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.27

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• He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  One Day, Bed, Want

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• Let us forget and forgive injuries.

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  Forgiveness, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  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.40

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• They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Pain, Expect Nothing, Labor

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.9, London : Hurst, Robinson ; Edinburgh : A. Constable

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• Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Two, Mines

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

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  Food, Men, Turkeys

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1848). “Don Quixote”, p.30

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• Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

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  Senior, Regret, Dirty

  "The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 - 1615.

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• Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Deceit, Stories

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.264

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• I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Should Have, Ends, Should

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1820). “The life and adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha: new edition, with engravings from designs by Richard Westall”, p.347

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• I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life, Success, God

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Self, Turkeys

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• I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Friendship, Dog, Pet

  "Loyal to the end... and beyond", www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2003.

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