Si os la mostrara — replicó don Quijote — , ¿qué hiciérades vosotros en confesar una verdad tan notoria? La importancia está en que sin verla lo habé… - Miguel de Cervantes

can’t help it, I must follow him – we’re from the same village, I’ve eaten his bread, I’m very fond of him, he’s grateful to me, he gave me his donkeys and above all I’m a faithful fellow, so nothing’s ever going to part us except the pick and the shovel. And if Your High and Mightiness doesn’t want me to be given the island I’ve been promised, God made me without it, and perhaps not getting it would be for the good of my conscience –

In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.

history, rival of time, storehouse of deeds, witness for the past, example and counsel for the present, and warning for the future.