Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
("Don Quixote")
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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