Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Don Quixote” in chapter 28, page 370 of Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2:
...sented from Richard Lovell Edgeworth, and thought the other Irish bull was the best,--of the man who said, I would have been a very handsome man, but they changed me in the cradle.
That comes from Don Quixote , and is Spanish; but Cervantes borrowed it from the Greek in the fourth century, and the Greek stole it from the Egyptian hundreds of years back.
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