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For hope is always born at the same time as love.

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Born

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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

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Literature, World, Sin

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.214

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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

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Courage, Taken, Birth

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.176

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It requires a long time to know anyone.

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Long, Long Time, Knows

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What a man has, so much he is sure of.

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Men

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1774*). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha,2: Being an Accurate, Complete, and Most Entertaining Narrative of the Wonderful Atchievements of that Incomparable Hero and Knight-errant ...”, p.216

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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

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Hands, Long, Evil

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1930). “Don Quixote of La Mancha”

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Jests that give pains are no jests.

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Pain, Giving, Jest

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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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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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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 absent feel and fear every ill.

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Absence, Ill, Feels

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.231

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

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Men, Talking, House

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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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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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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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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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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

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Uncles, Niece, Book

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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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Born: September 29, 1547
Died: April 22, 1616
Occupation: Novelist
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