Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote — Volume 1, Chapter VII (1885)

Would it not be better to remain at peace in your own house instead of roaming the world looking for better bread than ever came of wheat, never reflecting that many go for wool and come back shorn?"
"Oh, niece of mine," replied Don Quixote, "how much astray art thou in thy reckoning: ere they shear me I shall have plucked away and stripped off the beards of all who dare to touch only the tip of a hair of mine."
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Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote — Volume 1, Chapter VII (1885)

Called away by this noise and outcry, they proceeded no farther with the scrutiny of the remaining books, and so it is thought that "The Carolea," "The Lion of Spain," and "The Deeds of the Emperor," written by Don Luis de Avila, went to the fire unseen and unheard; for no doubt they were among those that remained, and perhaps if the curate had seen them they would not have undergone so severe a sentence.
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