| Back | "If all those who love one another were to marry," said Don Quixote, "it would deprive parents of the right to choose, and marry their children to the proper person and at the proper time; and if it was left to daughters to choose husbands as they pleased, one would be for choosing her father's servant, and another, some one she has seen passing in the street and fancies gallant and dashing, though he may be a drunken bully; for love and fancy easily blind the eyes of the judgment, so much wanted in choosing one's way of life; and the matrimonial choice is very liable to error, and it needs great caution and the special favour of heaven to make it a good one. |
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| Front | -Si todos los que bien se quieren se hubiesen de casar -dijo don Quijote-, quitaríase la eleción y juridición a los padres de casar sus hijos con quien y cuando deben; y si a la voluntad de las hijas quedase escoger los maridos, tal habría que escogiese al criado de su padre, y tal al que vio pasar por la calle, a su parecer, bizarro y entonado, aunque fuese un desbaratado espadachín; que el amor y la afición con facilidad ciegan los ojos del entendimiento, tan necesarios para escoger estado, y el del matrimonio está muy a peligro de errarse, y es menester gran tiento y particular favor del cielo para acertarle. |
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