Sancho Panza and the Promise of an Island

From Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Quixote recruits his neighbor Sancho Panza as squire by promising him governorship of an island (insula), creating literature's most famous comic duo and dialectic of idealism and pragmatism.
Part 1, Chapter 7

Sancho is enticed to leave wife and children with the promise of an 'insula' to govern.

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Part 2, Chapters 42-53

Sancho's surprisingly wise governorship of the fake island of Barataria, where his peasant common sense delivers Solomonic judgments.

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