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Quotation from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
“Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves”
Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 8, trans. John Ormsby (1885)
The beginning of the adventure of the windmills.
Citation: "Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves" — Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 8, trans. John Ormsby (1885). (id don-quixote-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1615), Attributed to Juan de Jáuregui, Public domain.
