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• A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

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  Country, Meditation, Riding

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Bowdrie”, p.68, Bantam

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• In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

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  Country, Teacher, Educational

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

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• Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

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  Path, Logic, Awareness

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.246, Bantam

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• Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

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  Reality, Mirages, May

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.146, Bantam

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• I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

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  Writing

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• I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

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  Men, Violence, Violent

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• Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

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  Men, Air, Doors

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Haunted Mesa”, p.258, Bantam

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• A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

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  Men, Firsts, Good Times

  Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.212, Bantam

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• For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

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  Numbers, May, Limits

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

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• Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

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  Church, Littles, Contrary

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• If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

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  Hair, Law, Boots

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Man Called Noon”, p.43, Bantam

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• Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

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  Important, Done, Ancestry

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.290, Bantam

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• To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

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  Men, Thinking, Pursue

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.149, Bantam

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• Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

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  Violence, Firsts, Folks

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle”, p.157, Bantam

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• What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

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  Mind, Way, Conditioning

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Californios”, p.51, Bantam

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• I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

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  Eggs, Long, Justice

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• Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

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  Teacher, Memories, Book

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• Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

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  Transition, Dogma, States

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.202, Bantam

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• If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

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  Book, Writing, Past

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• Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

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  Dry, Have Faith, Faith In God

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• If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

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  Creativity, Creative, Want

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• He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

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  Nature, Servant Of God, Tree

  Louis L'Amour (2007). “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5: Frontier Stories”, p.115, Bantam

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• You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

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  Fighting, Acceptance, Desert

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.41, Bantam

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• The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

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  Women, Heart, Sea

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.193, Bantam

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• when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

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  Gun, Outlaw

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle”, p.1542, Bantam

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