| Back | "Many a time," replied Don Quixote, "have I said what I now say once more, that the majority of the world are of opinion that there never were any knights-errant in it; and as it is my opinion that, unless heaven by some miracle brings home to them the truth that there were and are, all the pains one takes will be in vain (as experience has often proved to me), I will not now stop to disabuse you of the error you share with the multitude. All I shall do is to pray to heaven to deliver you from it, and show you how beneficial and necessary knights-errant were in days of yore, and how useful they would be in these days were they but in vogue; but now, for the sins of the people, sloth and indolence, gluttony and luxury are triumphant." |
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| Front | -Muchas veces he dicho lo que vuelvo a decir ahora -respondió don Quijote-: que la mayor parte de la gente del mundo está de parecer de que no ha habido en él caballeros andantes; y, por parecerme a mí que si el cielo milagrosamente no les da a entender la verdad de que los hubo y de que los hay, cualquier trabajo que se tome ha de ser en vano, como muchas veces me lo ha mostrado la experiencia, no quiero detenerme agora en sacar a vuesa merced del error que con los muchos tiene; lo que pienso hacer es el rogar al cielo le saque dél, y le dé a entender cuán provechosos y cuán necesarios fueron al mundo los caballeros andantes en los pasados siglos, y cuán útiles fueran en el presente si se usaran; pero triunfan ahora, por pecados de las gentes, la pereza, la ociosidad, la gula y el regalo. |
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