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NUMBER:9835
QUOTATION:I should be very willing to redress
Men’s 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 (1788–1824), British poet. Don Juan, cto. 13, st. 8 (1819-1824).
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Byron Collection.
 
 
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