Source: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
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Famous Owen Wister Quotes
“When you call me that, smile!”
Owen Wister
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The Virginian
The Virginian (1902), pp. 29–30. Reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), as presumably the forerunner of "Smile when you say that, partner".
“When yu’ can’t have what you choose, yu’ just choose what you have.”
Owen Wister
book
The Virginian
The Virginian (1902), chapter 13, p. 149.
“An aristocrat in morals as in mind.”
About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (1930), p. 130.
