Don Quixote

He was a man who, by reason of his exceeding fatness, was therefore very peaceable.

“Rocinante.”

After all, as Noel Coward once famously remarked, “Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”

you may say whatsoever you think of this history, without fear of being calumniated for a bad opinion or recompensed for the good you shall speak thereof.