"Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher."
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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Volume II, Chapter XLIII; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
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