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	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.
	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: It's not dying I'm talking about, it's living.
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: Better to have it and not need it than it is to need it and not have it.
	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: Only way to get better food around here is by shooting Bolivar. And another thing, Bol, I want you to quit whackin' that dinner bell for supper. You can hit it at noon if you want to, but lay off doin' it in the evenin'. See, a man with any sense at all can tell when it's sundown, without you whackin' that bell. Bolivar: General Robert E. Lee freed the slaves. I can whack it if I want to. Gus McCrae: It was Abe Lincoln that freed the slaves, Bol, not General Lee. Pea Eye Parker: He didn't free Mexicans, anyway, Bol. It was Americans he freed. Gus McCrae: You're in over your head, Pea. It was a bunch of Africans Abe Lincoln freed. No more American than Call here. Woodrow Call: I'm American! By God! Gus McCrae: You was born in Scotland, as I recall. You was still draggin' on the tit when they brought you over here. Woodrow Call: I reckon I'm as American as anyone from Tennessee.
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: [after handing the gun to Newt] It is better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: [looks over at Newt after Clara gives Newt the horse] Women!
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: [Woodrow walking towards Gus] I 'spect you been sittin' up all night reading the good book.
	Unknown Episode: Janey: [to Joe] You ever ate a frog?
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey! Gus McCrae: I like to kick a pig every once in a while. How would I do that?
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.
	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago.
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: ...and if that ain't bad enough you got all them Greek words on there, too. Gus McCrae: I told you, Woodrow, a long time ago it ain't Greek, it's Latin. Woodrow Call: Well what does it say in Latin? [Gus blusters some gibberish] For all you know it invites people to rob us. Gus McCrae: Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life.
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: You ever get tired o' loafin' I reckon you can get a job waitin' on tables. Gus McCrae: Oh, I had a job waitin' tables once. S' on a riverboat. I wasn't no older than Newt, there, but I hadda give it up. Newt: How come? Gus McCrae: Well I was, too young and pretty and the whores wouldn't let me alone.
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: Gus. Gus McCrae: What? Woodrow Call: Why not go up to Montana? It's a cattleman's paradise to hear Jake tell it. Gus McCrae: Sounds like a damn wilderness if you ask me. And we're a shade old to start fightin' Indians all over again, don't you think? Woodrow Call: I mean it, Gus. Why not, go north with a herd? Gus McCrae: I'll tell you what. You ride on up there, clear out the Iindians, build a little cabin, get a nice fire goin' in the fireplace and me and Jake will gather a herd and then we'll come on up. Woodrow Call: I'd like to see the herd that you and Jake could gather. Herd o' whores, maybe. Gus McCrae: Well you ain't no more a cattleman than I am, Call, and y'know it, too. Woodrow Call: I wanna do it, Gus. I wanna see that country, before the bankers and lawyers all git it.
	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: I could kick you for givin' him all them ideas about Montana. Now we're gonna suffer for the rest of our damn lives. Jake Spoon: Yeah, I forgot how determined he can get, once an idea takes root.
	Unknown Episode: Clara Allen: Here, Mr. Johnson. Meet your son. (Hands baby to July Johnson, who holds him in his arms.) Well, that's a good sign. I guess you'd at least catch him if somebody threw him off a roof.
	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: I'm just tryin' to keep everything in balance, Woodrow. You do more work than you got to, so it's my obligation to do less.
	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: Well, I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy.
	Unknown Episode: Pea Eye Parker: What's it read, Gus? Gus McCrae: It says, "Josh Deets. Served with me 30 years. Fought In 21 engagements with the Comanche and the Kiowa. Cheerful in all weathers. Never shirked a task. Splendid behavior." That's what it says. Pea Eye Parker: My lord. Old Deets is gone. My lord.
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: I guess it's our fault we should've shot sooner. Gus McCrae: I don't want even to begin thinking Woodrow of all the things we should have done for this good man.
	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line.
	Unknown Episode: Jake Spoon: I didn't see no line Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without getting scalped, that's all.
	Unknown Episode: Woodrow Call: We come to this place to make money. They wasn't nothin' about fun in the deal. Gus McCrae: What are you talkin' about? You don't even like money. You like money even less than you like fun, if that's possible.
	Unknown Episode: Roy Suggs: What did you find? Dan Suggs: Nothing but his old watch. Damn sodbusters! Jake Spoon: You shot those two men for a watch? Dan Suggs: Shot 'em, now I'm going to hang 'em. Eddie Suggs: Hang 'em? Dang, you beat all! I've never heard of hanging dead men. Dan Suggs: Shot 'em, now I'm gonna hang 'em, then I'm gonna burn 'em! Damn sodbusters. Can't ever be too dead to suit me.
	Unknown Episode: Clara Allen: Sometimes it seems like grave digging is all we do around here, don't it Cholo? What do you think happens when we die? Cholo: Not much. You are just dead. Clara Allen: Maybe it's not as big a change as we think. Maybe you just go back to where you lived or near your family, or wherever you were the happiest. Only you're just a spirit now... and you don't have the troubles the living have.
	Unknown Episode: July Johnson: It was my fault! Hell, you told me to stay. Gus McCrae: I know I did, son. And I'm sure you wished you had. But yesterday's gone, we can't get it back. Now you go on with your digging.
	Unknown Episode: Jake Spoon: Well, hell, boys. I'd damn sight rather be hung by my friends than by a bunch o' damn strangers. Newt... Well, adios, boys. Hope you won't hold it against me. Never meant no harm.
	Unknown Episode: Joshua Deets: [in the Wyoming Badlands] What we doin' up here, Captain? This ain't our land. Gus McCrae: Woodrow is determined to be the first man to graze cattle in Montana, even if it kills all of us. Joshua Deets: Don't seem right, Captain. A man ought not to leave his land and his people.
	Unknown Episode: Gus McCrae: [at Deet's burial] I think old Deets knew it was his time. He didn't drop that baby or try to give him back or draw his gun. He just stood there and let that Indian stick that lance right through him.
	Unknown Episode: Blue Duck: [to Gus] You ever bring that tongue of yours north of the Canadian River, I'll cut it off and feed it to my wolf pups.

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