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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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• The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

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  Literature, Bows, Bent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.337, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

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  Stones, Ill, Pitcher

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.466

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• Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

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  Sleep, Blessing, Insomnia

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.730, Wordsworth Editions

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• Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

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  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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• With life many things are remedied.

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  Hope

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.43

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• Let the worst come to the worst.

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  Worst

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.208

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• Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

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  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.681

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• The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

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  Love, Modesty, Maidens

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• The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

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  Army, Soldier

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• Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

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  God, Eye, Justice

  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.59

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• As ill-luck would have it.

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  Luck, Ill

  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.103

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• There is nothing costs less than civility.

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  Cost, Civility, Politeness

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• There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

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  Mother, Motherhood, Experience

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• There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

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  Mean, Benefits, Literature

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• Honesty's the best policy.

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  Honesty, Policy

  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.268

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• Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

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  Military, War, Blessing

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part I, Book III, Chapter 4), 1612.

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• When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.

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  Men, Wife, House

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.63

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