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And thus, from too little sleep and too much reading, his brain dried up and he completely lost his judgment.
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But now, in these our detestable times, no maiden is safe, even if she is hidden and enclosed in another labyrinth like the one in Crete; because even there, through chinks in the wall, or carried by the air itself, with the zealousness of accursed solicitation the amorous pestilence finds its way in and, despite all their seclusion, maidens are brought to ruin. It was for their protection, as time passed and wickedness spread, that the ord..
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And the first thing I have got to say is, that for my own part I hold my master Don Quixote to be stark mad, though sometimes he says things that, to my mind, and indeed everybody's that listens to him, are so wise, and run in such a straight furrow, that Satan himself could not have said them better; but for all that, really, and beyond all question, it's my firm belief he is cracked.
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In short, to sum up all in a few words, or in a single one, I may tell you I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance;' for though self-praise is degrading, I must perforce sound my own sometimes, that is to say, when there is no one at hand to do it for me.
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Yo se quien soy...
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Esa es natural condicion de mujeres -dijo don Quijote-: desdenar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece. Pasa adelante, Sancho.
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In a village of La Mancha,
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Es de vidrio la mujer; pero no se ha de probar si se puede o no quebrar, porque todo podria ser. Y es mas facil el quebrarse, y no es cordura ponerse a peligro de romperse lo que no puede soldarse. Y en esta opinion esten todos, y en razon la fundo: que si hay Danaes en el mundo, hay pluvias de oro tambien.
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And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who'd brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet,
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a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
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I am not in the habit', said Don Quixote, 'of despoiling those whom I vanquish, nor is it a custom of chivalry to take their horses and leave them on foot, unless the victor has lost his own horse in the fray, in which case it is legitimate to take the defeated knight's horse, as a prize won in lawful war. And so, Sancho, leave that horse, or donkey, or whatever you want to call it, for as soon as its master sees that we have gone he will r..
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PROLOGO Desocupado lector: sin juramento me podras creer que quisiera que este libro, como hijo del entendimiento, fuera el mas hermoso, el mas gallardo y mas discreto que pudiera imaginarse.
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It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below.
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According to an ancient and common tradition in the kingdom of Great Britain, this king did not die, but was transformed into a raven by the art of enchantment and, in the course of time, he shall return to rule again and regain his kingdom and his scepter.
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All that you have to do is make proper use of imitation in what you write, and the more perfect the imitation the better will your writing be. Inasmuch as you have no other object in view than that of overthrowing the authority and prestige which books of chivalry enjoy in the world at large and among the vulgar, there is no reason why you should go begging maxims of the philosophers, counsels of Holy Writ, fables of the poets, orations of ..
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In short, our gentleman became so immersed in his reading that he spent whole nights from sundown to sunup and his days from dawn to dusk in poring over his books, until, finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. He filled his imagination with everything he had read, with enchantments, knightly encounters, battles, challenges, wounds, with tales of love and its torments,..
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And yet the power of thought has always been so far beyond us that the main difference between men and animals is: they can think and we can't.
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Nothing flows from her, vile rabble.
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a Dios, Sancho --dijo don Quijote--, que todo se hara bien, y quiza mejor de lo pensado. Que no se mueve la hoja en el arbol sin la voluntad de Dios.
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he was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press,
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who was the first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it must have been our father Adam.
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He who clipped us has kept the scissors.
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all we want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and has a beautiful daughter;
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It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within himself the antidote to all these evils.
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Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?" "The answer is self-evident," responded Don Quixote. "It is greater to raise a dead man."
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The Panza is here," said Sancho, before anyone could reply, "and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus."
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We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read.
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The poor gentleman has no way of showing that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or censorious, but above all by being charitable; for by two maravedis given with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he who distributes alms with bell-ringing, and no one that perceives him to be endowed with the virtues I have named, even th..
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I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea.
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Your Grace is more fit to be a preacher than a knight-errant," said Sancho. "Knights-errant"
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pues es cosa cierta que cuando traen las desgracias la corriente de las estrellas, como vienen de alto a bajo, despenandose con furor y con violencia, no hay fuerza en la tierra que las detenga, ni industria humana que prevenirlas pueda.
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Sir Knight of the Sorrowful Face, I cannot bear with patience some of the things your Grace says. They are enough to make me suspect that all you have told me about knighthood and winning kingdoms and empires, of bestowing islands and giving me other favors and honors according to the customs of chivalry must all be hot air and lies, and all a cock and bull story or cock and ball story or whatsoever you term it.
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La razon de la sinrazon que a mi razon se hace, de tal manera mi razon enflaquece, que con razon me quejo de la vuestra fermosura.
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It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
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the iniquity of a bad woman carries a further penalty with it, which is that she loses the credibility of her honor with the very same man to whose entreaties and persuasions she surrendered. He believes she will as readily yield to others and gives absolute credence to the least suspicion of this.
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y asi, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le seco el celebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Llenosele
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Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such that if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is commonly said, that self-praise debaseth;
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An escape from penalty is better than petitioning the judges.
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el tiempo, descubridor de todas las cosas, no se deja ninguna que no las saque a la luz del sol, aunque este escondida en los senos de la tierra. Y,
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Since then the romances of chivalry had been superseded by the flowering of literature that we know as the Spanish Golden Age, and by Cervantes's time nobody considered them to be a threat any more.
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Dunyada hicbir sovalye Ingiltere'den donen Lancelot kadar Ilgi gormedi kadinlardan
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By the one God, Sancho, no more proverbs.
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And as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evil doing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Gines, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, made up his mind to steal Sancho Panza's ass.
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the sadness of the heart rises to the face, and in the eyes may be read the history of that which passes in the soul.
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