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Owen Wister - 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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Owen Wister

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Born: July 14, 1860
Died: July 21, 1938 (aged 78)
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