Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)
“You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616Related quotes
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 2 (p. 20).
The Roxburghe Ballads (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Let every man look before he leaps.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 14.