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"I was so free with him as not to mince the matter."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. The Author's Preface.
Don Quixote. The Author's Preface.
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"They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. The Author's Preface.
Don Quixote. The Author's Preface.
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"As ill-luck would have it."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. ii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. ii.
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"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv.
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"Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv.
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"Can we ever have too much of a good thing?"
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. vi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. vi.
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"The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. viii.
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"And had a face like a blessing."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book ii. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book ii. Chap. iv.
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"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. i.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. i.
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"Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. i.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. i.
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"Fair and softly goes far."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ii.
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"Plain as the nose on a man's face."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.
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"Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.
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"You are taking the wrong sow by the ear."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.
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"Bell, book, and candle."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.
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"Let the worst come to the worst."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. v.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. v.
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"You are come off now with a whole skin."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. v.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. v.
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"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
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"Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
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"Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?"
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
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"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
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"The more thou stir it, the worse it will be."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
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"Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.
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"I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.
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"Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I 'll stick."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.
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"Sure as a gun."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.
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"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
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"Thank you for nothing."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
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"After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
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"Of good natural parts and of a liberal education."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
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"Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
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"Let every man mind his own business."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
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"Murder will out."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
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"Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.
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"It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
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"I know what 's what, and have always taken care of the main chance."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
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"The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
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"I am almost frighted out of my seven senses."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
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"Within a stone's throw of it."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.
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"Let us make hay while the sun shines."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
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"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
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"Little said is soonest mended."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
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"A close mouth catches no flies."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
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"She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
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"You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
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"It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.
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"Delay always breeds danger."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. ii.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. ii.
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"They must needs go whom the Devil drives."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.
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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.
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"More knave than fool."
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.
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