Miguel de Cervantes: There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dis

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with — Miguel de Cervantes

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

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