a girl who seemed about sixteen years old, dressed in trave… - Miguel de Cervantes

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a girl who seemed about sixteen years old, dressed in travelling clothes, and so marvellously beautiful and graceful that everyone was dazzled by the sight of her and, if they hadn’t seen Dorotea, Luscinda and Zoraida at the inn, they’d have believed it next to impossible to find another comparable beauty.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Amigos, cualesquiera que seáis, que en esa prisión quedáis encerrados, perdonadme; que, por mi desgracia y por la vuestra, yo no os puedo sacar de vuestra cuita. Para otro caballero debe de estar guardada y reservada esta aventura.

Open thine arms and receive, too, thy son Don Quixote, who, if he comes vanquished by the arm of another, comes victor over himself, which, as he himself has told me, is the greatest victory anyone can desire.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

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