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• Dine on little, and sup on less.

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  Littles, Dine, Prudence

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.26

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• I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

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  Shoes, My Own, I Can

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.222, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have other fish to fry.

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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.556, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who's never loved cannot be good.

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  Be Good

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• Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

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  Humorous, Men, Made

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• Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

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  Sorrow, Care, Sin

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Thomas Roscoe (1833). “The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote”, p.184

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• Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

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  May, Wealth, Masters

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.12

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• For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

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  Vanity, Handsome, Imagine

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• But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

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  Writing, Hands, Giving

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.214, Collector's Library

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• Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

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  Sin, Motive

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• You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

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  Kings, Home, Fire

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

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  Traitor, Treason, Please

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

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  God, Pain, Sake

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let every man look before he leaps.

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  Men, Looks, Leap

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

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  Funny, Men, Dental Work

  Don Quixote I, Ch. 4 (1605)

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• Blessings on him, who invented sleep.

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  Sleep, Blessing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1852). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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• Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

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  Battle, Giants, Thirty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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• Other men's pains are easily borne.

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  Pain, Men

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• My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

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  Memories, Names, Forget

  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.272

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• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Truth

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.412, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

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  Doors, Fortune, Remedy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.83, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

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  Men, Spoons, Mouths

  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.418

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• Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

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  Mother, Experience, Universal

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.229

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• By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

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  Innovation, Language, Adopted

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux, John Gibson Lockhart (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.277

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• You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

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  Cake, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, Miscellaneous

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.59

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