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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. (1547–1616) (continued)
 
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    Spare your breath to cool your porridge. 1
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. v.
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    A little in one’s own pocket is better than much in another man’s purse.
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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    Remember the old saying, “Faint heart never won fair lady.” 2
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x.
9449
    There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x.
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    Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x.
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    Let every man look before he leaps. 3
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xiv.
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    The pen is the tongue of the mind.
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xvi.
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    There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xx.
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    He has an oar in every man’s boat, and a finger in every pie.
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxii.
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    Patience, and shuffle the cards.
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii.
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    Comparisons are odious. 4
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii.
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    Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii.
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    The proof of the pudding is the eating.
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiv.
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    He is as like one, as one egg is like another. 5
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxvii.
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    You can see farther into a millstone than he. 6
          Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap xxviii.
 
Note 1.
See Rabelais, Quotation 57. [back]
Note 2.
Edmund Spenser: Britain’s Ida, canto v. stanza 1. Ellerton: George a-Greene (a Ballad). Whetstone: Rocke of Regard. Robert Burns: To Dr. Blacklock. George Colman, the Younger: Love Laughs at Locksmiths, act i. [back]
Note 3.
See Heywood, Quotation 8. [back]
Note 4.
See Fortescue, Quotation 2. [back]
Note 5.
See Rabelais, Quotation 43. Also Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Quotation 1. [back]
Note 6.
See Heywood, Quotation 51. [back]