“There is no love lost between us.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

Variant: There is no love lost, sir.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.

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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616

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