Don Quixote

"O Lady of Beauty, strength and support of my faint heart, it is time for thee to turn the eyes of thy greatness on this thy captive knight on the brink of so mighty an adventure."

And so, as the saying is, cat to rat, rat to rope, rope to stick, the carrier pounded Sancho, Sancho the lass, she him, and the innkeeper her, and all worked away so briskly that they did not give themselves a moment's rest; and the best of it was that the innkeeper's lamp went out, and as they were left in the dark they all laid on one upon the other in a mass so unmercifully that there was not a sound spot left where a hand could light.

it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.

the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty

There is no book so bad but it has something good in it

it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.

I was born to be an example of misfortune, and the target and mark at which the arrows of adversity are aimed and directed.

Come, don't be lazy, but get up from your bed and let us take to the fields in shepherd's trim as we agreed.

take my advice and live many years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die

until death it's all life