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• Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

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  Firsts, Strange, Blind

  Louis L'Amour (2015). “Sitka: A Novel”, p.105, Bantam

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• I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

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  Book, Dark, Light

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.82, Bantam

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• For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

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  Motivational, Reading, Numbers

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.25, Bantam

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• . . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

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  Moving, Goal, Wish

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.166, Bantam

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• A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

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  Home, Mind, Chance

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.97, Bantam

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• The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

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  Time, Men, Way

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.28, Bantam

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• When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

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  Men, Cities, Soul

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Galloway”, p.177, Bantam

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• Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

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  Strength, Struggle, Men

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.144, Bantam

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• A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

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  Determination, Book, Ideas

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

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  Teaching, Historical Novels, Desire

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.15, Bantam

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• To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

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  Political, Democracy, Doe

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.180, Bantam

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• Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

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  Inspirational, Writing, Kids

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.102, Bantam

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• The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.

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  Men, Thieves, Want

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.19, Bantam

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• Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

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  Knowledge, Increase, Hopefully

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• No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

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  School, Giving, Matter

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.12, Bantam

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• Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

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  Dream, Preparation, Sometimes

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.185, Bantam

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• The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

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  Graduation, Inspiration, Forever

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• violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

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  Gun, Men, Rights

  Louis L'Amour (2011). “The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)”, p.153, Bantam

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• A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

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  Fear, Lying, Men

  Louis L'Amour (2011). “The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)”, p.246, Bantam

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• A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Fighting

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.252, Bantam

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• I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

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  Waiting, Tomorrow, Lifetime

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.37, Bantam

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• Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

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  Simple, Men, Luck

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.291, Bantam

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• A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

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  Revenge, Men, Sight

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Comstock Lode”, p.23, Bantam

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• Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

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  Book, Learning, Wish

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• When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

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  Country, Two, Important

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