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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

Owen Wister

I am confident this man could not see himself as others—some others, at least—saw him.

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When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

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Rain had not fallen for some sixty days, and for some sixty more there was no necessity that it should fall.

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I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

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Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons.

Owen Wister

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

Owen Wister

Owen Wister

Owen Wister

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Born: July 14, 1860

Died: July 21, 1938 (aged 78)

Bio: Owen Wister was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards.

Known for:

The Virginian (1902)
Lin Mclean (1897)
Lady Baltimore (1905)
Red Men And White (1895)
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories (1900)

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