Owen Wister Quotes

• Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

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  Sweet, Plato, Food

  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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• 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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  Men, Ideas, Ems

  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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• 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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  Men, Two, People

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

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  Life, You Choose

  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.

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  Destiny, Men, Feet

  Owen Wister (2009). “The Virginian (Cortero Pantheon Edition)”, p.328, Fireship Press

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• It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

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  Mean, World, May

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

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  Soul, Damage, Truth Is

  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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  Gun, Always Smile, Belly

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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.

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  Sex, Father, Book

  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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• 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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  Class, Car, Firsts

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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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  Men, Doctors, Bishops

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

  Owen Wister

  Mind, Moral

  Owen Wister (1930). “Theodore Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919”

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