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> [“But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/but-if-i-had-lived-to-be-twenty-nine-years-old-like-i-am-and-with-all/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

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## More by Owen Wister

> [“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/it-was-through-the-declaration-of-independence-that-we-americans/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/i-reckon-some-parsons-have-a-right-to-tell-yu-to-be-good-the-bishop/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/all-america-is-divided-into-two-classes-the-quality-and-the-equality/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [“Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/here-in-flesh-and-blood-was-a-truth-which-i-had-long-believed-in/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/i-thought-there-should-in-truth-be-heavy-damages-for-malpractice-on/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [“The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/the-cowboy-has-now-gone-to-worlds-invisible-the-wind-has-blown-away/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/but-no-earthly-foot-can-step-between-a-man-and-his-destiny/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/with-a-gun-against-my-belly-i-i-always-smile/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/forgive-my-asking-you-to-use-your-mind-it-is-a-thing-which-no/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [“Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/providence-makes-use-of-instruments-i-d-not-touch-with-a-ten-foot-pole/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [An aristocrat in morals as in mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/an-aristocrat-in-morals-as-in-mind/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [“He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/he-possessed-that-quality-in-his-profanity-of-not-offending-by-it/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/when-a-man-ain-t-got-no-ideas-of-his-own-said-scipio-he-d-ought-to-be/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal quality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/it-was-through-the-declaration-of-independence-that-we-americans-2/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

> [When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/when-a-man-ain-t-got-no-ideas-of-his-own-he-d-ought-to-be-kind-o/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

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