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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check t

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. – Horace

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