Don Quixote
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“Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
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“The reason of the unreasonable usage of my reason does so weaken my reason that I have reason to complain of your beauty,”
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“The high Heavens of your divine divinity does fortify you with the stars and renders you meritorious of the merit merited by your greatness…”
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pondered in his memory and imagination many names which he chose, erased, rejected, added, discarded and returned to once again, he finally resolved to call the horse “Rocinante.” The appellation appeared lofty and resonant to him, and signified what the horse had been when it was a common workhorse before what it now was, which was first of all the horses in
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be proper to have some Lady to give him unto as a present, so that he would go in and fall upon his knees before my sweet Lady and say in a humble and submissive voice, “Madam, I am the giant Caraculiambro, Lord of the island Malindrania, who has been vanquished in single combat by the knight who can never be extolled enough, Don Quixote of La Mancha, who has commanded me to present myself before your Grace,