“They must needs go whom the Devil drives.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 4.
“Needs must when the Devil drives.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 57.
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