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“Woodrow, quite a party,” Augustus said.

“Cherful in all weathers, never sherked a task. Splendid behaviour.”

“You don’t knot as much about women as you like to think you do,” Clara said. “You’re overrated in that regard.”
“By God, you’re sassy,” Augustus said.
Clara just smiled, her old beguiling smile. “I’m honest,” she said. “To most men, that’s sassy.”

Gus and Clara gotta be like my Top 1 favorite relationship.

‘“Where’s he going?” Roy Suggs asked, finding his voice at last.
“Gone to pick out a tree to hang you from, son,” Augustus said mildly.’

Ride with an outlaw, die with an outlaw.

‘Sometimes Po Campo sang in Spanish...The songs bothered some of the men, they were so sad.
"Po, you're a jolly fellow, how come you only sing about death?…
"I don't sing about myself," Campo said. "I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me."
"Well, you sing them, who do they belong to?" Pea asked.
"They belong to those who hear them," Po said.’

“His main happiness consisted of sitting with his back against the water trough at night, watching the sky and the changing moon.
He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.” 😭