"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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"I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do."
"She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets."
"My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do."
"A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death."
"So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry."
"If you draft me, you'll never regret it."
"One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life."