"There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work."

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Source : John R Erickson, John R. Erickson (1988). “The original adventures of Hank the Cowdog”, Texas Monthly Press

John R. Erickson

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“Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.”
“Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.”
“Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.”
“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.”
“Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.”

Source : New York Times, July 2, 2004.
“The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.”
“LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”
“I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.”

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