John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. (1547–1616) (continued) |
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| As ill-luck would have it. 1 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. ii. |
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| The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. 2 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv. |
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| Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv. |
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| Can we ever have too much of a good thing? 3 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. vi. |
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| The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. viii. |
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| And had a face like a blessing. 4 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book ii. Chap. iv. |
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| It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. i. |
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| Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. i. |
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| Fair and softly goes far. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. ii. |
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| Plain as the nose on a man’s face. 5 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. iv. |
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| Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; 6 or, out of God’s blessing into the warm sun. 7 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. iv. |
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| You are taking the wrong sow by the ear. 8 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. iv. |
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| Bell, book, and candle. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. iv. |
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| Let the worst come to the worst. 9 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. v. |
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| You are come off now with a whole skin. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. v. |
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| Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies. |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. vi. |
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| Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone. 10 |
| Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. vi. |
| Note 1. See Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Quotation 27. [back] |
| Note 2. See Bacon, Quotation 28. [back] |
| Note 3. See Shakespeare, As You Like It, Quotation 59. [back] |
| Note 4. He had a face like a benediction.—Jarvis’s translation. [back] |
| Note 5. See Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Quotation 5. [back] |
| Note 6. See Heywood, Quotation 110. [back] |
| Note 7. See Heywood, Quotation 101. [back] |
| Note 8. See Heywood, Quotation 124. [back] |
| Note 9. See Middleton, Quotation 7. [back] |
| Note 10. See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 196. [back] |