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I am, therefore, in a measure constrained to follow that road, and by it I must travel in spite of all the world, and it will be labour in vain for you to urge me to resist what heaven wills, fate ordains, reason requires, and, above all, my own inclination favours; for knowing as I do the countless toils that are the accompaniments of knight-errantry, I know, too, the infinite blessings that are attained by it; I know that the path of virtue is very narrow, and the road of vice broad and spacious; I know their ends and goals are different, for the broad and easy road of vice ends in death, and the narrow and toilsome one of virtue in life, and not transitory life, but in that which has no end; I know, as our great Castilian poet says, that—It is by rugged paths like these they goThat scale the heights of immortality,Unreached by those that falter here below."

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it does so through dramatic overused cliches, sub-par acting and laughable musical accompaniments to "enlighten" the viewer when to discern the dramatic moments.

He felt life and its accompaniments to be a burden, and was about to yield himself to his enemies.

And now another series of processions commenced, by virtue of which a goodly display of pastry, with its usual accompaniments, garnished the table.

"And yet thine, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "ought to be used to such squalls; but mine, reared in soft cloth and fine linen, it is plain they must feel more keenly the pain of this mishap, and if it were not that I imagine—why do I say imagine?—know of a certainty that all these annoyances are very necessary accompaniments of the calling of arms, I would lay me down here to die of pure vexation."

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