Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. v.

I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. viii.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.

I begin to smell a rat.[787:9]

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.

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I will take my corporal oath on it.