John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. (1547–1616) (continued) |
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| I will take my corporal oath on it. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x. |
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| It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap xi. |
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| I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter ’s over; and come what will come, I am satisfied. 1 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. xxiii. |
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| When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain. 2 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. ii. |
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| He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, “As it may hit;” and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, “This is a cock.” 3 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii. |
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| There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii. |
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| “There is no book so bad,” said the bachelor, “but something good may be found in it.” 4 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii. |
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| Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iv. |
| Note 1. I would do what I pleased; and doing what I pleased, I should have my will; and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.—Jarvis’s translation. [back] |
| Note 2. For let our finger ache, and it endues Our other healthful members even to that sense Of pain.—Othello, act iii. sc. 4. [back] |
| Note 3. 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.—Jarvis’s translation. [back] |
| Note 4. See Pliny the Younger, Quotation 6. [back] |