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Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4) QUOTES

Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4) QUOTES

1 " It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

2 " Murder? It is not easily done, amigo. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

3 " ...be wary of evidence given by others, for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

4 " You will leave here at daybreak and you will leave alone."

He smiled, showing a fine set of white, even teeth. "And if I do not choose to?"

"Bodies do not lie long upon the ground. The coyotes dispose of them. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

5 " Information is power. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

6 " Need and desire have no connection,' I said. 'Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

7 " For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

8 " She did not believe me. "You do not worship the Sun."

"The sun gives life to all things. Without the sun this would be a dark, dead world. Perhaps," I added, "the spirit we worship is the same, and only the names are different. The message from He who rules over us all may come to each people in a different way. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

9 " I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will prepare your bed. Where you go, I will go. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

10 " A dead man they could leave, but a wounded man they must care for. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

11 " I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read? "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

12 " Uninformed he might be, unintelligent he was not, "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

13 " I am one who lives to learn. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

14 " He is a Stinkard. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

15 " when one has possessions he is as often possessed by them as possessing them. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

16 " It is our custom that a Stinkard must always marry a Sun. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

17 " Most of all we needed a fat bear, for of all things, fat is the hardest to come by in the wilderness. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

18 " But the young men of all tribes were eager to take scalps and the prestige that followed. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

19 " This is our bed. Keep it clean. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)

20 " Need and desire have no connection,” I said. “Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want. "

― Louis L'Amour , Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)