"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 tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God."

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Source : Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

Owen Wister

#Men Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Bishops Quotes

“I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.”
“That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.”

Source : The Wonders of the Invisible World (1692)
“I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.”
“There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.”
“My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.”
“Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng”
“Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.”

Source : Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.2655, Ballantine Books
“I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the childâ€™s own welfare.”

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