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The Virginian (1902)
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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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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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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I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Owen Wister
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Born:
July 14, 1860
Died:
July 21, 1938
(aged 78)
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