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"I am Almost Frighted out of my Seven Senses" and Other Quotes from "Don Quixote"  
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I highly recommend checking out the original Spanish text if you can read it. These are quotes from the novel "Don Quixote" by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

	"In some village in La Mancha, whose name I do not care to recall, there dwelt not so long ago a gentleman of the type wont to keep an unused lance, an old shield, a greyhound for racing, and a skinny old horse."
	"I am almost frighted out of my seven senses."
	"The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death."
	"Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death."
	"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?"
	"The painter Orbaneja of Ubeda, if he chanced to draw a cock, he wrote under it, "This is a cock," lest the people should take it for a fox."
	"Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones."
	"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."
	"Delay always breeds danger."
	"Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
	"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!"
	"Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy."
	"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."
	"Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills."
	"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause."
	"In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue."
	"I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff."
	"A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as a public indecency."

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