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"Kirk wondered why he'd never noticed before that his father was such an intensely principled man.
Maybe it was because the ongoing conflict between dedicated family man and loyal officer so often manifested itself as ill-temper. It occurred to him that all great conflicts between fathers and sons revolved around the fact that you couldn't truly appreciate an adult until you were one."

"Do you believe in astrology?"
"Well," said Elia, "the sky is a large, clean page, and it would be a pity if God had not put some good writing on it, for wise men to read."
"True!" said Tizzo.

"I tell you what, you can't enjoy cold spring water unless you been hiking all day across the desert. And you can't enjoy your days unless you been and spent a big hunk of them with a wife. The best thing about a wife is being without her."

"I tell you what, you can't enjoy cold spring water unless you been hiking all day across the desert. And you can't enjoy your days unless you been and spent a big hunk of them with a wife. The best thing about a wife is being without her."

"... the West judges a man, one third by all his other virtues, and two thirds by his largeness of heart."

"...for the West judges a man, one third by all his other virtues, and two thirds by his largeness of heart."

"She's nice."

"So am I," said Jingo. "I can be so nice you never saw anything like it. Have you seen her?"

"I seen her go down the street," said the Parson.
"She's got a nice brown face and a nice pair of blue eyes, and her clothes is made so that you know where she is inside them."