If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
James Carlos Blake
History is a record of human nature in action.
history human-nature
Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men.
women men relationships lovers attitudes
The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.
family first-sentence
He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.
grace sister
Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.
greed pride sins
first-sentence devil
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
self-knowledge first-sentence tragedy
He was the deadliest man in Texas, on that they all agreed.
first-sentence texas
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.
laughter amusement blessed
The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin silver crescent in the twilit western sky. The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons. The first hard freeze cast the countryside in ice and trees split open with sounds like whipcracks. Came a snow flurry one night and then a heavy falling the next day, and that evening the land lay white and still under a high ivory moon.
countryside seasons winter
Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.
rules
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