The Truth about Sancho Panza
Without making any boast of it Sancho Panza succeeded in the course of years,
by feeding him a great number of romances of chivalry and adventure in the
evening and night hours, in so diverting from himself his demon, whom he
later called Don Quixote, that this demon thereupon set out, uninhibited, on
the maddest exploits, which, however, for the lack of a preordained object,
which should have been Sancho Panza himself, harmed nobody. A free man,
Sancho Panza philosophically followed Don Quixote on his crusades, perhaps
out of a sense of responsibility, and had of them a great and edifying
entertainment to the end of his days.
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
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