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If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.
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No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to ride the new trails.
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Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.
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A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
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The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.
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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
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I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.
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Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
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Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.
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I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.
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Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.'
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A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.
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I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too much about the egg I've just laid because five more are pushing to come out.
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One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
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This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last.
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There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
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A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
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Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.
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Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.
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When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.
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Violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
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There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
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When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else."
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There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Louis L'Amour
Born:
March 22, 1908
Died:
June 10, 1988
(aged 80)
Bio:
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western novels ; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections.
Known for:
Sackett's Land (1974)
Last of the Breed (1986)
The Walking Drum (1984)
Jubal Sackett (1985)
To the Far Blue Mountains (1976)
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