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Miguel De Cervantes

1547 AD — 1616 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Don Quixote
The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla)
Authors · anthology attribution: Cervantes
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Procrastination · anthology attribution: Cervantes
Reform · anthology attribution: Cervantes
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01c. 1581 AD

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

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02c. 1581 AD

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.

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03c. 1581 AD

As ill-luck would have it.

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04c. 1581 AD

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

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05c. 1581 AD

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

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06c. 1581 AD

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

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07c. 1581 AD

The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.

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08c. 1581 AD

And had a face like a blessing.

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09c. 1581 AD

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

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10c. 1581 AD

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

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11c. 1581 AD

Fair and softly goes far.

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12c. 1581 AD

Plain as the nose on a man's face.

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13c. 1581 AD

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

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14c. 1581 AD

You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.

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15c. 1581 AD

Bell, book, and candle.

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16c. 1581 AD

Let the worst come to the worst.

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17c. 1581 AD

You are come off now with a whole skin.

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18c. 1581 AD

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

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19c. 1581 AD

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

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20c. 1581 AD

Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?

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21c. 1581 AD

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

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22c. 1581 AD

The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

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23c. 1581 AD

Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.

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24c. 1581 AD

I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet.

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Miguel De Cervantes

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