True Grit
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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.

Charles Portis

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.

Charles Portis

I am not a lawyer, but it is the rule of the law that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty.

Charles Portis

I think he is a coward and I despise him.

Charles Portis

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

Charles Portis

That was the last time that Ross ever bested me in anything. I have been besting him in something ever since.

Charles Portis

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

Charles Portis

I will not rest easy until Tom Chaney is roasting in hell!

Charles Portis

I am a foolish old man who has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop.

Charles Portis

You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.

Charles Portis