So I’d been reading Colin a book from my childhood — Roald Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World — and on the inside front cover was a bookplate. I didn’t recognize the handwriting of the person who’d written my name on this plate, but I liked the sketch of Don Quixote and the quote: <\/p>\n
“The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive.” <\/p>\n
Being a one, lots of people like this quote enough to put it in their email footer, particularly people who write into various tech listservs. <\/p>\n two, this quote is ascribed to Miguel Cervantes but without documentation. <\/p>\n So I loaded up google books and searched a copy of Don Quixote. No luck for the exact quote. Google books through up a bunch of other folks who’d cited this quotation none of whom had offered documentation. Hmmm…to be continued. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’d been reading Colin a book from my childhood — Roald Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World — and on the inside front cover was a bookplate. I didn’t recognize the handwriting of the person who’d written my name on this plate, but I liked the sketch of Don Quixote and the quote: … Continue reading Tracking a quote down<\/span> historian<\/del>dork, I wanted to make sure that this was indeed the source of the quote so that I could, well, dorkily put it in my email footer. My research<\/del>google search revealed two things: <\/p>\n