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| | IDBAmerica: Sancho Panza: Redeeming the man of the people |
 | | For those of us who are immersed in a world of statistics, abstractions and models, Sancho Panza offers a refreshing return to the world of the common man, completely devoid of bookish culture, with his loves, fears, respect, revolts and small ambitions. |
 | | Sancho knows how to laugh and does so about everything, with loud guffaws, starting with himself (“I don’t care what they say about me”), not to mention his venerable lord and master, who when he realizes he’s being mocked often trounces the irreverent squire. |
 | | Ultimately, Sancho Panza’s life strikes us as a great lesson in practical wisdom, urging us to value the concrete, to save a place for simple pleasures and basic joys, to both respect and fear the attributes of power. |
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