“Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33. Note: "Time ripens all things" is the translator's interpolation and does not appear in the original Spanish text.
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Nadie nace enseñado, y de los hombres se hacen los obispos, que no de las piedras.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III
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