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Don Quixote is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's seventh studio album, released in 1972 on the Reprise Records Label. The album reached #42 on the Billboard album chart. The album contains little innovation on Lightfoot's trademark folk sound, although it is notable for containing Lightfoot's third and fourth seafaring songs, "Christian Island (Georgian Bay)" and "Ode to Big Blue" (his first two being "Marie Christine" from Back Here on Earth and "Ballad of Yarmouth Castle" from Sunday Concert). Lightfoot would continually revisit nautical themes over the next ten years. Don Quixote also contains a rare Lightfoot foray into the protest song genre in the form of the longest track on the album, "The Patriot's Dream", a ballad describing the enthusiasm of soldiers on a troop train "riding off to glory in the spring of their years", followed by the pathos of a woman receiving news that her husband's aircraft had been shot down in combat. The title track is a lyrical paean to Cervantes’ half-mad hero. "Beautiful" was released as a single and peaked at #13 in Canada and #58 on the Billboard singles chart. The album itself was on the Canadian charts from March 11, 1972, to January 27, 1973. On February 13, 1988, Lightfoot performed "Alberta Bound" in McMahon Stadium during the Opening Ceremonies for the 1988 Winter Olympics held in Calgary, Alberta, with Ian and Sylvia.

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“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.”
— A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
“Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.”
— Ch. 8.
“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
— Ch. 11.
“You can see farther into a millstone than he.”
— Ch. 28.
“Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.”
— Ch. 55.
“Puede haber amor sin celos, pero no sin temores.”
— There can be love without jealousy, but not without fear.

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Notable quotes

“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.”
— A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
“Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.”
— Ch. 8.
“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
— Ch. 11.
“You can see farther into a millstone than he.”
— Ch. 28.
“Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.”
— Ch. 55.
“Puede haber amor sin celos, pero no sin temores.”
— There can be love without jealousy, but not without fear.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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