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The opening sentence of Don Quijote: En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivvia un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocin flaco y galgo corredor.

"In a village in La Mancha (whose name I do not care to recall) there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen who keep a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound"!