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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv.
Miguel de
Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
 
1547–1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, b. Alcalá de Henares. Don Quixote is considered a profound delineation of two conflicting attitudes toward the world: idealism and realism.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  sr-vn´tz sä´´-v´dr, thr-bän´ts sä´´ä-bth´rä from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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Don Quixote, Part 1
Published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XIV.
 
Bartlett’s Cervantes Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
Cervantes, Miguel de, 11152 to 11207
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.



 
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