Don Quixote Quotes

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes, or at least alleviates, the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.[translation by John Willis Clark]Inheriting property wipes out or softens down in the heir the feeling of grief the dead man might be expected to leave behind him.[translation by John Ormsby][Que esto del heredar algo borra o templa en el heredero la memoria de la pena que es razón que deje el muerto.]