Louis L'Amour - The Walking Drum (1984)

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

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

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

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You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

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This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice... a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

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

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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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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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Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

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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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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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A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.

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The mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

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Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

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

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A sword is never enough. The mind is also a weapon, but like the sword it must be honed and kept sharp.

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