"They can expect nothing but their labor for……" — Miguel de Cervantes

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• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. — Lord Byron
• I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that… — Lord Byron
• The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia
• Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Nathaniel Parker
• Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey. — John Wooden
• I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left… — Wendy Lesser
• The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a… — Stephen Leacock
• In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in… — Lytton Strachey
• Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I… — James Thurber
• If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face… — Alexander Theroux

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