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Quotation from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
“In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing”
Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 1, trans. John Ormsby (1885)
The novel's celebrated opening introduces the impoverished hidalgo.
Citation: "In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing" — Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 1, trans. John Ormsby (1885). (id don-quixote-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1615), Attributed to Juan de Jáuregui, Public domain.
