Louis L'Amour Short Quotes

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Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

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All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

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

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Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.

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

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I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

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The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

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To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

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To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

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

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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

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Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

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We must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

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The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead....

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

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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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Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

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Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

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Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

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

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

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

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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

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What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

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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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Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

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

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