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Quotes
People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.
You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.
I am not a lawyer, but it is the rule of the law that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty.
I think he is a coward and I despise him.
The wicked flee when none pursueth.
That was the last time that Ross ever bested me in anything. I have been besting him in something ever since.
I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
I will not rest easy until Tom Chaney is roasting in hell!
I am a foolish old man who has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop.
You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.