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"You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; and store 's no sore."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
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"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"What a man has, so much he is sure of."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
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"The pot calls the kettle black."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"This peck of troubles."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. liii.
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"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. liv.
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"Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lv.
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"My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lvii.
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"Liberty . . . is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.
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"As they use to say, spick and span new."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.
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"I think it a very happy accident."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.
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"I shall be as secret as the grave."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxii.
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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; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 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."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxviii.
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"Rome was not built in a day."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi.
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"The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi.
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"Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxiv.
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"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."
The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla).
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"My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain."
The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla).
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