Game of Great Openings
Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable. But I have been unable to trangress the order of nature, by which like gives birth to like. (from the prologue)
In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name, there lived not long ago a gentleman - one of those who have always a lance in the rack, ... (from the first chapter)
Don Quixote
by
Cervantes
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