Miguel de Cervantes Quotes - Page 18

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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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• I shall be as secret as the grave.

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  Secret, Graves

  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.230

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• The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

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  Broken, Fountain, Results

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• I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

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  Taken, Care, Chance

  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.227

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• History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

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  Father, History, Sacred

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part II, Book III, Chapter 3), 1620.

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• At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

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  Laughing, Duchess, Said

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• Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

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  Drinking, Cloaks, Drinkers

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The Exemplary Novels”, p.353

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• There is no love lost between us.

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  Lost Love, Confusion, No Love Lost

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.189

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• She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

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  Love, Life, Fighting

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• The proof is in the pudding.

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  Pudding, Proof

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• He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

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  Should Have, May, Should

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• We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

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  Made

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