Owen Wister quotes
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“Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'”
-- Owen WisterSource : Owen Wister (2016). “OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works): The Virginian, The Promised Land, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Lady Baltimore, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Dragon of Wantley, Padre Ignacio, Philosophy 4, The Jimmyjohn Boss…”, p.625, e-artnow
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“It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.”
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“In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.”
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“An aristocrat in morals as in mind.”
-- Owen WisterSource : Owen Wister (1930). “Theodore Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919”
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“I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.”
-- Owen WisterSource : Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation
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“With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.”
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“When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.”
-- Owen WisterSource : Owen Wister (2007). “The Virginian (Townsend Library Edition)”, p.109, Townsend Press
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“But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.”
-- Owen WisterSource : Owen Wister (2009). “The Virginian (Cortero Pantheon Edition)”, p.328, Fireship Press
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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.”
-- Owen WisterSource : Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation
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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.”
-- Owen WisterSource : Owen Wister (2016). “WESTERN CLASSICS COLLECTION: The Promised Land, The Virginian, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Jimmyjohn Boss, Napoleon Shave-Tail, Hank's Woman, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Padre Ignacio and more: Historical Novels, Adventures and Romances, Including the First Cowboy Novel Set in the Wild West”, p.360, e-artnow
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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 WisterSource : Owen Wister (2016). “OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works): The Virginian, The Promised Land, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Lady Baltimore, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Dragon of Wantley, Padre Ignacio, Philosophy 4, The Jimmyjohn Boss…”, p.638, e-artnow
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