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There is no love lost between us.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
It is ambition, but a generous ambition, that seeks to improve one's status without harm to others.
Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) (1613)
That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Rarely, if ever, can ambition be satisfied with no harm to another.
Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) (1613)
There die many more of the trustful than of the wary.
Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) (1613)
All will come out in the washing.
In hell there is no retention.
It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee."
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
You are come off now with a whole skin.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Ready to split his sides with laughing.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The proof of the pudding is the eating.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
As they use to say, spick and span new.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
I say patience, and shuffle the cards.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Let us make hay while the sun shines.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Plain as the nose on a man's face.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)