| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 9835 |
| QUOTATION: | I should be very willing to redress Mens wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, Had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824), British poet. Don Juan, cto. 13, st. 8 (1819-1824). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Byron Collection. |
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