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" "God save us all and his Holy Mother too!’ Sancho exclaimed. ‘How can you be so thick-skulled and empty-headed you can’t see that what I’m saying is the plain truth, and that it’s more through roguery than enchantment you’re in this mess and in this cage? But since that’s the way it is I’m going to give you clear proof that you aren’t enchanted. Just you tell me, then, as you’d have God save you from this pickle, and as you’d have my lady Dulcinea take you into her arms when you’re least expecting it …
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is most famous for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.
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