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Letter "D" » Don
«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
«The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Cervantes, chivalry, Don, donna, donnas, donning, errant, knighted, knights, Knight Errant, perished, The knight, The Knights
«Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.»
«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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«MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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advantages, baffle, baffles, baffling, bows, clothing, constitutes, deceptive, diplomatic, Don, donning, employed, honorable, loathing, machination, machinations, moral obligation, obligation, Open and, opponents, plain clothes, prospers, Right Thing, Satan, wolves
«Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, / Don John of Austria is going to the war.»
«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)
| Keywords:
Crusoe, Don, donning, Don Quixote, excepting, pilgrim, readers, Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, wished
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