Cervantes making an editorial judgment as the purported translator of Don Quixote, Part II {supposedly written by a third party, but actually written by Cervantes himself} as to what not to include. "Here the author depicts all the details of Don Diego's house, portraying for us what the house of a wealthy gentleman farmer contains, but the translator of this history decided to pass over these and other similar minutiae in silence, because they do not accord with the principal purpose of this history, whose strength lies more in its truth than in cold digressions.
( Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra )
[ Don Quijote ]
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