Cowboy Quote by 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 lies rusting over the face of the Western earth.” quote by Owen Wister — Download Open image

““The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box lies rusting over the face of the Western earth.””

Owen Wister

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“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. We had seen little men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to human nature. Therefore, we decreed that every…

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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…

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“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.”

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“Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a…

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

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But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

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With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

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“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”

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“Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.”

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An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

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“He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.”

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“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.”

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