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- noun Plural form of
Don Quixote .
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Examples
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If, on the contrary, we interfered in these disputes, we are called Don Quixotes, and dupes to all the world.
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Your show is filled with characters obsessed with literature -- you've compared them to a bunch of Don Quixotes, attempting to live out the stories they've read in books.
Lila Shapiro: Jonathan Ames' Trouble (and Hit TV Series) Began When He Was Bored Lila Shapiro 2010
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Your show is filled with characters obsessed with literature -- you've compared them to a bunch of Don Quixotes, attempting to live out the stories they've read in books.
Lila Shapiro: Jonathan Ames' Trouble (and Hit TV Series) Began When He Was Bored Lila Shapiro 2010
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Your show is filled with characters obsessed with literature -- you've compared them to a bunch of Don Quixotes, attempting to live out the stories they've read in books.
Lila Shapiro: Jonathan Ames' Trouble (and Hit TV Series) Began When He Was Bored Lila Shapiro 2010
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Your show is filled with characters obsessed with literature -- you've compared them to a bunch of Don Quixotes, attempting to live out the stories they've read in books.
Lila Shapiro: Jonathan Ames' Trouble (and Hit TV Series) Began When He Was Bored Lila Shapiro 2010
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Your show is filled with characters obsessed with literature -- you've compared them to a bunch of Don Quixotes, attempting to live out the stories they've read in books.
Lila Shapiro: Jonathan Ames' Trouble (and Hit TV Series) Began When He Was Bored Lila Shapiro 2010
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Your show is filled with characters obsessed with literature -- you've compared them to a bunch of Don Quixotes, attempting to live out the stories they've read in books.
Lila Shapiro: Jonathan Ames' Trouble (and Hit TV Series) Began When He Was Bored Lila Shapiro 2010
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Your show is filled with characters obsessed with literature -- you've compared them to a bunch of Don Quixotes, attempting to live out the stories they've read in books.
Lila Shapiro: Jonathan Ames' Trouble (and Hit TV Series) Began When He Was Bored Lila Shapiro 2010
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However, in our experience, not reckoning with that did pay in the end; we found that it was possible to change the situation after all, and those who were mocked as being Don Quixotes, whose efforts were never going to come to anything, may in the end and to general astonishment get their way.
Václav Havel Honors a Chinese Prisoner Li, Xiaorong 2009
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And why, when a new bookstore opens, is it seen as a wonderfully naive venture, suitable for Don Quixotes or those who have money to "prop up" such a business?
Comment: On Misperception and Making The World Book Nerd 2008
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