Education of a Wandering Man
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“Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
Source: The Walking Drum
Source: The Man Called Noon
“When evil takes up to violence, the good have no choice but to defend themselves.”
Source: Hanging Woman Creek
Source: Brionne
Source: The Proving Trail
“Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
Source: Westward the Tide
“People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.”
Source: The Lonesome Gods
Source: Sackett's Land
Source: The Key-Lock Man
Source: High Lonesome
“...he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.”
Source: Ride the Dark Trail
Source: How the West Was Won
Source: The Walking Drum
“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
Source: Galloway
Source: Ride the Dark Trail
Source: Conagher
Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
Source: The Walking Drum
Source: The Californios
Source: Shalako
Source: High Lonesome
Source: Sackett
Source: The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)
“A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.”
Source: Comstock Lode
Source: The Lonesome Gods
“Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.”
Source: The Walking Drum
“It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.”
Source: Last of the Breed
“Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.”
Source: Hanging Woman Creek
“You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.”
“My future is one I must make myself.”
Source: The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River
“You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.”
Source: The Lonely Men
“A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.”
Source: Treasure mountain
Source: The Lonesome Gods
“What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.”
Source: Bendigo Shafter
Source: The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)
“What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.”
“One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.”
Source: Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.”
Source: Ride the Dark Trail