More from Miguel de Cervantes

  1. I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
  2. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!
  3. Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
  4. Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
  5. The painter Orbaneja of Ubeda, if he chanced to draw a cock, he wrote under it, 'This is a cock,' lest the people should take it for a fox.
  6. I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
  7. Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?
  8. Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

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