[lbo-talk] question about Cervantes

[Jeffrey Fisher]

going over to Forbes.com to look at their college rankings (a whole other
thread . . . or two, or three), i was interrupted by an ad and a "thought
for the day" from our friends at Forbes. it was a quotation from Cervantes
that went (approximately), "one should never stand begging for that which
one has the power to earn."

Immediately, I thought of El Sub back in the day discussing with some writer
at the Nation or something how he traveled with a copy of Don Quijote, and
found myself wondering about the context from which that snippet was torn.

I don't suppose anyone knows?