“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
One of the most influential books ever published and often credited as the first novel, Don Quixote is endlessly entertaining and rife with timeless wisdom. The contrast of the main character’s noble delusions about an age long past with the inevitability of the truth is not lost on even the most casual reader. That the quote above was written about a deluded old man famous for tilting at windmills not only places it in the Irony Hall of Fame, but supercharges it with unfathomable depth.
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