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This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.
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and the crystal waters of the brooks, murmuring over the grey and white pebbles, hastened to pay their tribute to the expectant rivers;
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This is a fault incident to all those who presume to translate books of verse into another language. For, however much care they take and however much ability they employ, they can never equal the quality of the original.
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Senor Sancho Panza must know that we too have enchanters here that are well disposed to us, and tell us what goes on in the world, plainly and distinctly, without subterfuge or deception; and believe me, Sancho, that agile country lass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, who is as much enchanted as the mother that bore her; and when we least expect it, we shall see her in her own proper form, and then Sancho will be disabused of the error he is..
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mucha diferencia hay de las obras que se hacen por amor a las que se hacen por agradecimiento.
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mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.
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At last, when his wits were gone beyond repair, he came to conceive the strangest idea that ever occurred to any madman in this world. It now appeared to him fitting and necessary, in order to win a greater amount of honor for himself and serve his country at the same time, to become a knight-errant and roam the world on horseback, in a suit of armor; he would go in quest of adventures, by way of putting into practice all that he had read i..
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In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind. His fantasy filled with everything he had read in his books, enchantments as well as combats, battles, challenges, wounds, courtings, loves, torments, and other impossible foolishness, and h..
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Avventurose eta e benedette quelle che non seppero la spaventevole furia di queste indemoniate macchine dell'artiglieria, l'inventore delle quali io ritengo che sia nell'inferno a ricevere il guiderdone del suo diabolico ritrovato, per mezzo del quale fece si che un ignobile e codardo braccio possa toglier la vita a un prode cavaliere.
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chivalry
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Mira, Sancho, por el mesmo que denantes juraste te juro - dijo don Quijote - que tienes el mas corto entendimiento que tiene ni tuvo escudero en el mundo. ?Que es posible que en cuanto ha que andas conmigo no has echado de ver que todas las cosas de los caballeros andantes parecen quimeras, necedades y desatinos, y que son todas hechas al reves? Y no porque sea ello ansi, sino porque andan entre nosotros siempre una caterva de encantadores,..
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My lady the duchess has duennas in her service that might be countesses if it was the will of fortune; 'but laws go as kings like;' let nobody speak ill of duennas, above all of ancient maiden ones; for
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Sola una cosa tiene mala el sueno, segun he oido decir, y es que se parece a la muerte, pues de un dormido a un muerto hay muy poca diferencia.[7]
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no le faltaba otra cosa sino buscar una dama de quien enamorarse; porque el caballero andante sin amores era arbol sin hojas y sin fruto y cuerpo sin alma.
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At least, Sancho, I want, because it is necessary, I say 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, and I assure you that you will not recount as many as I intend to perform." "For the love of God, Senor, don't let me see your grace naked, for that will make me feel ..
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and had they been aware of the ancient custom of the Greeks, they would have erected a trophy on the spot.
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Senor, yo soy hombre pacifico, manso, sosegado, y se disimilar cualquiera injuria, porque tengo mujer y hijos que sustentar y criar. Asi que, seale a vuestra merced tambien aviso, pues no puede ser mandato, que en ninguna manera pondre mano a la espada, ni contra villano ni contra caballero; y que, desde aqui para delante de Dios, perdono cuantos agravios me han hecho y han de hacer: ora me los haya hecho, o haga o haya de hacer, persona al..
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Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.
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Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins
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he seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese,
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That night the housekeeper burned all the books there were in the stable yard and in all the house; and there must have been some that went up in smoke which should have been preserved in everlasting archives, if the one who did the scrutinizing had not been so indolent. Thus we see the truth of the old saying, to the effect that the innocent must sometimes pay for the sins of the guilty.
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front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild men, all clad in ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that they nearly terrified Sancho. On the front of the castle and on each of the
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But tell me, uncle, who is responsible for your being involved in these quarrels? Would it not be better to remain peacefully here at home and not go roaming through the world in search of better bread than is made from wheat, without taking into consideration that many who go for wool come back shorn?" "My dear niece," replied Don Quixote, "how little you understand of these matters! Before they shear me, I will have plucked and stripped t..
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In the meanwhile Don Quixote was bringing his powers of persuasion to bear upon a farmer who lived near by, a good man-if this title may be applied to one who is poor-but with very few wits in his head. The short of it is, by pleas and promises, he got the hapless rustic to agree to ride forth with him and serve him as his squire. Among other things, Don Quixote told him that he ought to be more than willing to go, because no telling what a..
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the horse has come, our beards are growing, and by every hair in them all of us implore thee to shave and shear us, as it is only mounting him with thy squire and making a happy beginning with your new journey." "That I will, Senora Countess Trifaldi," said"
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they were puffing at him with a great pair of bellows; for the whole adventure was so well planned by the duke, the duchess, and their majordomo, that nothing was omitted to make it perfectly successful.
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As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he
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After he in his memory and imagination had made up, struck out, and discarded many names, now adding to and now subtracting from the list, he finally hit upon "Rocinante," a name that impressed him as being sonorous and at the same time indicative of what the steed had been when it was but a hack, whereas now it was nothing other than the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world."
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quietly I got down from Clavileno and amused myself with the goats--which are like violets, like flowers--for
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And so, having polished up his armor and made the morion over into a closed helmet, and having given himself and his horse a name, he naturally found but one thing lacking still: he must seek out a lady of whom he could become enamored; for a knight-errant without a lady-love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul.
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Oh, how our good knight reveled in this speech, and more than ever when he came to think of the name that he should give his lady! As the story goes, there was a very good=looking farm girl who lived near by, with whom he had once been smitten, although it is generally believed that she never knew or suspected it. Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, and it seemed to him that she was the one upon whom he should bestow the title of mistress of his ..
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he did not think about any promises his master had made to him, and he did not consider it work but sheer pleasure to go around seeking adventures, no matter how dangerous they might be.
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Ah, but Senor!" exclaimed the niece, "your Grace should send them to be burned along with the rest; for I shouldn't wonder at all if my uncle, after he has been cured off this chivalry sickness, reading one of these books, should take it into his head to become a shepherd and go wandering through the woods and meadows singing and piping, or, what is worse, become a poet, which they say is an incurable disease and one that is very catching."
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Poetry, gentle sir, is, as I take it, like a tender young maiden of supreme beauty, to array, bedeck, and adorn whom is the task of several other maidens,
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put the stores of the alforjas into requisition, and all three sitting down lovingly and sociably, they made a luncheon and a supper of it all in one; and when the sackcloth was removed,
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perceived a cart covered with royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and persuaded that this must be some new adventure,
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Thy enterprises speed, Didst thou the light mid Libya's sands Or Jaca's rocks first see?
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Thou knowest that my voice is sweet, That is if thou dost hear; And I am moulded in a form Somewhat below the mean.
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He] is not going to exit to applause, even if the entire human race should favor him.
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Do you mean to say that the story is finished?" said Don Quixote. "As finished as my mother," said Sancho."
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Primeramente, !oh hijo!, has de temer a Dios, porque en el temerle esta la sabiduria, y siendo sabio no podras errar en nada. Lo segundo, has de poner los ojos en quien eres, procurando conocerte a ti mismo, que es el mas dificil conocimiento que puede imaginarse. Del conocerte saldra el no hincharte
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Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar.
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when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it
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Many people go looking for wool and come back shorn.
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Ju them me dore ne zemer, o zot i mire, - tha Sancoja, - se asaj hundekrrutes nuk i ziret bese dhe e kam fjalen, domosdo, sikunder qe e kuptoni, per vdekjen. Se per ate jane njelloj si ajo foshnja buzequmesht pathare, ashtu edhe ay kercuplaku truthare, qe s'eshte as per shtepi, as per are [...] shtie syte ne pallatet e mbreterve, sa edhe ne kalivet e varfanjakeve. Dhe kesaj zonje i pelqen me shume te deftenj sa eshte e forte e harbute, sesa..
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