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"Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured."
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Source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha,5”, p.221
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