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The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume that there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
Louis L'Amour
Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.
Louis L'Amour
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Louis L'Amour
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Louis L'Amour
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
Louis L'Amour
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.
Louis L'Amour
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Louis L'Amour
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Louis L'Amour
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read.
Louis L'Amour
Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Louis L'Amour
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
Louis L'Amour
Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.
Louis L'Amour
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L'Amour
When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
Louis L'Amour
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Louis L'Amour
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Louis L'Amour
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Louis L'Amour
I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.
Louis L'Amour
No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Louis L'Amour
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
Louis L'Amour
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.
Louis L'Amour
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