"Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."
"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
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Source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1733). “The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface”, p.31
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