Louis L'Amour - Man Quotes

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A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

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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 mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

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A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

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Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

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The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

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There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

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Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

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Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

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What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

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When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

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I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

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A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

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For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

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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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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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Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

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This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last.

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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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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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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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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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A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

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The cause of right is never lost, Leal. I've often thought the biggest damned fool in the world could to down in history as a great man if he would just consistently vote for the greatest good of the greatest number.

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A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

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Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

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To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

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No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

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Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

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