-¿Qué gigantes? – dijo Sancho Panza. -Aquellos que allí ves – respondió su amo -, de los brazos largos, que los suelen tener algunos de casi dos legu… - Miguel de Cervantes

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-¿Qué gigantes? – dijo Sancho Panza.
-Aquellos que allí ves – respondió su amo -, de los brazos largos, que los suelen tener algunos de casi dos leguas.
- Mire vuestra merced – respondió Sancho – que aquellos que allí se parecen no son gigantes, sino molinos de viento, y lo que en ellos parecen brazos son las aspas, que, volteadas del viento, hacen andar la piedra del molino.
- Bien parece -respondió don Quijote- que no estás cursando en esto de las aventuras: ellos son gigantes; y si tienes miedo quítate de ahí, y ponte en oración en el espacio que yo voy a entrar con ellos en fiera y desigual batalla

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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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Do not issue many edicts, and if you do, try to make them good ones, and, above all, ones that are carried out and obeyed; for edicts that are not carried out are as good as nonexistent, and they let it be known that the prince who had the intelligence and authority to issue them did not have the courage to enforce them; laws that intimidate but are not enforced become like the log that was king of the frogs: at first it frightened them, but in time they came to despise it and climbed up on it.

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