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  1. Larry McMurtry _ Streets Of Laredo

    Learning may be the best thing we have. It may be all that we can truly keep, Lorie,
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  2. Larry McMurtry _ Streets Of Laredo

    There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die.
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  3. Larry McMurtry _ Streets Of Laredo

    He was just a husband and a salaried man. Choice didn't play any part in his life.
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  4. Larry McMurtry _ Streets Of Laredo

    Still, he was a salaried man. Even though Katie, who had been a good wife, was dead, he was not his own master.
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  5. Larry McMurtry _ Streets Of Laredo

    Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew."
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  6. Larry McMurtry _ Streets Of Laredo

    It seemed to him the highest principle, loyalty. He preferred it to honor. He had never been exactly sure what men meant when they spoke of their honor, though it had been a popular word during the time of the War. He was sure, though, what he meant when he spoke of loyalty. A man didn't desert his comrades, his troop, his leader. If he did he was, in Call's book, worthless.
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  7. Larry McMurtry _ Streets Of Laredo

    She didn't know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn't want to touch it or even look at it.
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