In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.
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You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.
No man should live longer than his teeth.
Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment.
We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.
But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity. All of the Hat Creek Outfit, including particularly Augustus McCrae, want Call to accept the boy as his son.
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