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“ ”An escape from penalty is better than petitioning the judges.
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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Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins
Existen, a mi parecer, muchos otros hechos explicables dentro de nuestra teoría. ¡Qué extraño es que un ave, con forma de pájaro carpintero, se alimente de insectos en el suelo; que los gansos de tierra, que rara vez o nunca nadan, tengan los pies palmeados; que un ave parecida al tordo se zambulla y alimente de insectos que viven debajo del agua; que el petrel tenga costumbres y conformación que lo hacen adecuado para el género de vida de un pingüino, y así en un sinfín de casos
O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave,
La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star!
To thee I say that if the peerless maid,
Dulcinea del Toboso, is to be restored
to the state that was once hers, it needs must be
that thy squire Sancho take on his bared behind,
those sturdy buttocks, must consent to take
three thousand lashes and three hundred more,
and well laid on, that they may sting and smart;
for those are the authors of her woe
have thus resolved, and that is why I've come,
This, gentles, is the word I bring to you.