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Cavendish, Margaret
(
Duchess of Newcastle
)
c.
1624–74
1
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Plays
(1662) "Nature's Three Daughters" pt. 2, act 5, sc. 20

Cavour, Count
1810–61
1
We are ready to proclaim throughout Italy this great principle: a free church in a free state.

speech, 27 March 1861

Caxton, William
c.
1421–91
1
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

Caxton's edition (
c.
1478) of Chaucer's translation of Boethius
De Consolacione Philosophie
epilogue

Celan, Paul
1920–70
1
Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland.
Death is a master from Germany.

"Deathfugue" (written 1944)

Centlivre, Susannah
c.
1669–1723
1
The real Simon Pure.

A Bold Stroke for a Wife
(1718) act 5, sc. 1

Cervantes
1547–1616
1
The Knight of the Doleful Countenance.

Don Quixote
(1605) pt. 1, ch. 19

2
There are only two families in the world…the haves and the have-nots.

Don Quixote
(1605) pt. 2, ch. 20

3
What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

Don Quixote
(1605) pt. 2, ch. 23

Cézanne, Paul
1839–1906
1
Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

letter to Emile Bernard, 1904; Emile Bernard
Paul Cézanne
(1925)

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