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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them."

"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it."

"Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain."

"I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed."

"My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round."

"The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time."

"On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces."
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