For the love of God, gentlemen, let us not be so foolish as to believe that this world is a carnival, and that we are here to eat and drink and be merry.
— Cervantes Early Modern

Don Quixote

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Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter XXIX

Date / Period

1605

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Strange & Unusual

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