"Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox."
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Source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions
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