I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
Charles PortisBut I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
Charles PortisThere is no knowing what is in a man's heart.
Charles PortisYou must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.
Charles PortisTag: grace
I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful
Charles PortisAs he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
Charles PortisYou go for a man hard and fast enough and he don't have time to think about how many is with him, he thinks about himself and how he may get clear out of the wrath that is about to set down on him.
Charles PortisIf you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.
Charles PortisPeople do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.
Charles PortisNothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.
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