Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. xi.
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.[788:1]
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. xxiii.
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.[788:2]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. ii.
He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, "This is a cock."[788:3]
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.