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Letter "D" » Don Quixote
«When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!»
Author: Georges Bernanos
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cherished, Don, donning, Don Quixote, huge, let down, revenged, sheer, uninterrupted
«Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.»
«In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.»
«Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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armies, Don, donning, Don Quixote, flocks, turn back
«QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish. --Juan Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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absurdly, adj, adjective, adjectives, banish, chivalric, Don, Don Juan, Don Quixote, incomparable, insight, Juan, K.E., Ke, philology, pronounced, quixotic, smith, smiths, Spanish, Tay, unhappily
«Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Don, donning, Don Quixote, gentleman
«Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Crusoe, Don, donning, Don Quixote, excepting, pilgrim, readers, Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, wished
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