"There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches."
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"He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind."
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"In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness."
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"The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it."
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"He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is."
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"Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates."
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"Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do."
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"The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers."
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"We are all as God made us and frequently much worse."
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"At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say."
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"Let us forget and forgive injuries."
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"We must not stand upon trifles."
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"Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice."
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"I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it."
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"Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!"
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"The journey is better than the inn"."
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"Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher."
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"God helps everyone with what is his own."
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"The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty."
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"Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote."
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