Don Quixote (Chapter 3), by Miguel de Cervantes
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The gaunt lunatic, Don Quixote, saw the world through glasses colored with romanticism that had gone out of style hundreds of years before he was born. Cervantes made the world laugh at the exaggerated stories it had been devouring. (Volume 14, Harvard Classics)
Printing of Cervantes' "Don Quixote" licensed, Sept. 26, 1604.
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