| Back | "I have heard of this book already," said Don Quixote, "and verily and on my conscience I thought it had been by this time burned to ashes as a meddlesome intruder; but its Martinmas will come to it as it does to every pig; for fictions have the more merit and charm about them the more nearly they approach the truth or what looks like it; and true stories, the truer they are the better they are;" and so saying he walked out of the printing office with a certain amount of displeasure in his looks. |
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| Front | -Ya yo tengo noticia deste libro -dijo don Quijote-, y en verdad y en mi conciencia que pensé que ya estaba quemado y hecho polvos, por impertinente; pero su San Martín se le llegará, como a cada puerco, que las historias fingidas tanto tienen de buenas y de deleitables cuanto se llegan a la verdad o la semejanza della, y las verdaderas tanto son mejores cuanto son más verdaderas. Y, diciendo esto, con muestras de algún despecho, se salió de la emprenta. |
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