| Back | "All that is true, Senor Don Quixote," said Carrasco; "but I wish such fault-finders were more lenient and less exacting, and did not pay so much attention to the spots on the bright sun of the work they grumble at; for if aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus, they should remember how long he remained awake to shed the light of his work with as little shade as possible; and perhaps it may be that what they find fault with may be moles, that sometimes heighten the beauty of the face that bears them; and so I say very great is the risk to which he who prints a book exposes himself, for of all impossibilities the greatest is to write one that will satisfy and please all readers." |
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| Front | -Todo eso es así, señor don Quijote -dijo Carrasco-, pero quisiera yo que los tales censuradores fueran más misericordiosos y menos escrupulosos, sin atenerse a los átomos del sol clarísimo de la obra de que murmuran; que si aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus, consideren lo mucho que estuvo despierto, por dar la luz de su obra con la menos sombra que pudiese; y quizá podría ser que lo que a ellos les parece mal fuesen lunares, que a las veces acrecientan la hermosura del rostro que los tiene; y así, digo que es grandísimo el riesgo a que se pone el que imprime un libro, siendo de toda imposibilidad imposible componerle tal, que satisfaga y contente a todos los que le leyeren. |
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