Thomas Middleton Anything for a Quiet Life
Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, part ii, Act i. sc. 2.
“I'll turn over a new leaf.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 13.
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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616Related quotes
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