Fair and softly goes far. ✨ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoi…

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Fair and softly goes far. ✨ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
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Miracle me no miracles. ✨ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the lif … ▶
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand. ✨ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). Don Quixote, p.214, Collector's Library

Fair and softly goes far. ✨ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux

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