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Monsignor Quixote

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[(Chicago)] [ By (author) Alaa Al Aswany, Translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab ] [April, 2009]

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by Alberto España

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“Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.”
― Saadi

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“Apenas se deviam ler os livros que nos picam e que nos mordem. Se o livro que lemos não nos desperta como um murro no crânio, para quê lê-lo?”
― F. Kafka

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“However much you study, you cannot know without action.
A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man.
Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?”
― Saadi of Shiraz

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“Todas as casas onde há livros e quadros e discos são bonitas. E são feias todas as casas, por mais luxuosas, onde faltem essas coisas."
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― Eugénio de Andrade

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“Very good laws may be ill timed.”
― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

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