Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
“We have here other fish to fry.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 12.
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